5-letter words with IL in the middle
Delve into the fascinating world of words where the letter IL is nestled in the middle. This section highlights the unique placement of IL in various words, illustrating how it contributes to their sound and meaning. From everyday language to more unusual terms, discover how IL in the middle shapes the essence of these words.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| still | 5 | to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons | an even (or still) more interesting problem |
| while | 11 | a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition | he was here for a little while |
| child | 11 | a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age | they had three children |
| miles | 7 | - | - |
| smile | 7 | a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | - |
| silly | 8 | inspiring scornful pity | how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years |
| built | 7 | (used of soaps or cleaning agents) having a substance (an abrasive or filler) added to increase effectiveness | the built liquid detergents |
| build | 8 | make by combining materials and parts | - |
| billy | 10 | a short stout club used primarily by policemen | - |
| pills | 7 | - | - |
| pilot | 7 | something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | - |
| chill | 10 | coldness due to a cold environment | - |
| daily | 9 | of or belonging to or occurring every day | daily routine |
| hills | 8 | - | - |
| guilt | 6 | remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense | - |
| drill | 6 | make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool | don't drill here, there's a gas pipe |
| skill | 9 | an ability that has been acquired by training | - |
| willy | 11 | - | - |
| kilos | 9 | - | - |
| villa | 8 | Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923) | - |
| spill | 7 | flow, run or fall out and become lost | The milk spilled across the floor |
| riley | 8 | United States poet (1849-1916) | - |
| tails | 5 | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men | - |
| chili | 10 | very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency | - |
| filth | 11 | an offensive or indecent word or phrase | - |
| grill | 6 | a restaurant where food is cooked on a grill | - |
| exile | 12 | the act of expelling a person from their native land | men in exile dream of hope |
| chile | 10 | a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast | - |
| milky | 14 | resembling milk in color; not clear | milky glass |
| mills | 7 | United States architect who was the presidentially appointed architect of Washington D.C. (1781-1855) | - |
| pilar | 7 | of or relating to a hair | - |
| piles | 7 | venous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter | - |
| voila | 8 | - | - |
| dildo | 7 | a vibrating device that substitutes for an erect penis to provide vaginal stimulation | - |
| guild | 7 | a formal association of people with similar interests | - |
| silva | 8 | the forest trees growing in a country or region | - |
| milos | 7 | - | - |
| rails | 5 | a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll | - |
| wills | 8 | - | - |
| piled | 8 | - | - |
| spilt | 7 | - | - |
| quilt | 14 | bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | - |
| silky | 12 | having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light | silky skin |
| lilac | 7 | of a pale purple color | - |
| quill | 14 | the hollow spine of a feather | - |
| guile | 6 | the quality of being crafty | - |
| bilbo | 9 | - | - |
| riled | 6 | aroused to impatience or anger | riled no end by his lies |
| gilly | 9 | - | - |
| gills | 6 | - | - |
| dilly | 9 | - | - |
| filet | 8 | cut into filets | filet the fish |
| agile | 6 | mentally quick | an agile mind |
| oiled | 6 | treated with oil | oiled country roads |
| zilch | 19 | a quantity of no importance | I didn't hear zilch about it |
| filly | 11 | a young female horse under the age of four | - |
| swill | 8 | wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk | - |
| tilly | 8 | - | - |
| wilco | 10 | - | - |
| bilge | 8 | water accumulated in the bilge of a ship | - |
| krill | 9 | shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales | - |
| tilde | 6 | a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | - |
| silks | 9 | the brightly colored garments of a jockey; emblematic of the stable | - |
| pilaf | 10 | rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | - |
| tilak | 9 | - | - |
| filch | 13 | make off with belongings of others | - |
| toils | 5 | - | - |
| brill | 7 | European food fish | - |
| hilly | 11 | having hills and crags | hilly terrain |
| tiled | 6 | covered or furnished with tiles | baths with tiled walls |
| filmy | 13 | so thin as to transmit light | filmy wings of a moth |
| wilts | 8 | - | - |
| dilli | 6 | - | - |
| trill | 5 | a note that alternates rapidly with another note a semitone above it | - |
| gaily | 9 | in a gay manner | the scandals were gaily diverting |
| milch | 12 | giving milk; bred or suitable primarily for milk production | milch goats, milch camels |
| doily | 9 | a small round piece of linen placed under a dish or bowl | - |
| shill | 8 | act as a shill | This man shilled and bid for an expensive carpet during the auction in order to drive the price up |
| twill | 8 | a weave used to produce the effect of parallel diagonal ribs | - |
| frill | 8 | an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal | - |
| tiler | 5 | a worker who lays tile | - |
| zilla | 14 | - | - |
| fille | 8 | a young female | - |
| hillo | 8 | - | - |
| milko | 11 | - | - |
| oiler | 5 | a well that yields or has yielded oil | - |
| cilia | 7 | - | - |
| pilau | 7 | rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | - |
| sills | 5 | United States operatic soprano (born in 1929) | - |
| filer | 8 | a clerk who is employed to maintain the files of an organization | - |
| silty | 8 | full of silt | silty soil |
| stile | 5 | an upright that is a member in a door or window frame | - |
| miler | 7 | a runner in a one-mile race | - |
| esile | 5 | - | - |
| fails | 8 | - | - |
| evils | 8 | - | - |
| edile | 6 | - | - |
| eilds | 6 | - | - |
| filar | 8 | related to or having filaments (especially across a field of view as in the eyepiece of a telescope) | a filar eyepiece |
| films | 10 | - | - |
| filos | 8 | - | - |
| filum | 10 | a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) | - |
| filmi | 10 | - | - |
| filed | 9 | - | - |
| files | 8 | - | - |
| fillo | 8 | - | - |
| fills | 8 | - | - |
| foils | 8 | - | - |
| gilas | 6 | - | - |
| gilds | 7 | - | - |
| gilet | 6 | - | - |
| gilpy | 11 | - | - |
| gilts | 6 | - | - |
| haily | 11 | - | - |
| heils | 8 | - | - |
| hails | 8 | - | - |
| icily | 10 | in a cold and icy manner | `Mr. Powell finds it easier to take it out of mothers, children and sick people than to take on this vast industry,' Mr Brown commented icily |
| hilch | 13 | - | - |
| hilts | 8 | - | - |
| hilum | 10 | (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | - |
| hilus | 8 | (anatomy) a depression or fissure where vessels or nerves or ducts enter a bodily organ | the hilus of the kidney |
| hilar | 8 | of or relating to or located near a hilum | - |
| jills | 12 | - | - |
| jilts | 12 | - | - |
| kails | 9 | - | - |
| jails | 12 | - | - |
| kiley | 12 | an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex | - |
| kilim | 11 | - | - |
| kills | 9 | - | - |
| kilns | 9 | - | - |
| kilps | 11 | - | - |
| kilts | 9 | - | - |
| kilty | 12 | - | - |
| lills | 5 | - | - |
| lilos | 5 | - | - |
| lilts | 5 | - | - |
| maile | 7 | - | - |
| maill | 7 | - | - |
| mails | 7 | - | - |
| mille | 7 | - | - |
| milor | 7 | - | - |
| milpa | 9 | - | - |
| milts | 7 | - | - |
| milty | 10 | - | - |
| miltz | 16 | - | - |
| milks | 11 | - | - |
| milds | 8 | - | - |
| milia | 7 | - | - |
| moils | 7 | - | - |
| nails | 5 | - | - |
| muils | 7 | - | - |
| deils | 6 | - | - |
| dills | 6 | - | - |
| drily | 9 | in a dry laconic manner | - |
| dwile | 9 | - | - |
| doilt | 6 | - | - |
| boils | 7 | - | - |
| ceili | 7 | - | - |
| ceils | 7 | - | - |
| coils | 7 | - | - |
| cills | 7 | - | - |
| axile | 12 | relating to or attached to the axis | - |
| axils | 12 | - | - |
| bails | 7 | - | - |
| arils | 5 | - | - |
| atilt | 5 | departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | - |
| bilby | 12 | bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit | - |
| biled | 8 | - | - |
| biles | 7 | - | - |
| bilgy | 11 | smelling like bilge water | - |
| bilks | 11 | - | - |
| bills | 7 | - | - |
| anile | 5 | of or like a feeble old woman | - |
| anils | 5 | - | - |
| agila | 6 | - | - |
| ailed | 6 | - | - |
| poilu | 7 | thick stew made of rice and chicken and small game; southern U.S. | - |
| pilao | 7 | - | - |
| pilow | 10 | - | - |
| pilum | 9 | - | - |
| pilus | 7 | any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal | - |
| pilis | 7 | - | - |
| pilaw | 10 | rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes | - |
| pilch | 12 | - | - |
| pilea | 7 | low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage | - |
| pilei | 7 | - | - |
| piler | 7 | - | - |
| prill | 7 | - | - |
| raile | 5 | - | - |
| sails | 5 | - | - |
| riles | 5 | - | - |
| rille | 5 | - | - |
| rills | 5 | - | - |
| roils | 5 | - | - |
| roily | 8 | (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | - |
| seils | 5 | - | - |
| silds | 6 | - | - |
| silts | 5 | - | - |
| silos | 5 | - | - |
| siled | 6 | - | - |
| silen | 5 | - | - |
| siler | 5 | - | - |
| siles | 5 | - | - |
| silex | 12 | a pure form of finely ground silica | - |
| shily | 11 | - | - |
| soils | 5 | - | - |
| soily | 8 | - | - |
| slily | 8 | - | - |
| stilb | 7 | - | - |
| stilt | 5 | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons | - |
| spile | 7 | a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask | - |
| toile | 5 | - | - |
| tiles | 5 | - | - |
| tills | 5 | - | - |
| tilth | 8 | arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops | - |
| tilts | 5 | - | - |
| teils | 5 | - | - |
| thill | 8 | one of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it | - |
| thilk | 12 | - | - |
| twilt | 8 | - | - |
| trild | 6 | - | - |
| vilde | 9 | - | - |
| viler | 8 | - | - |
| villi | 8 | - | - |
| vills | 8 | - | - |
| veily | 11 | - | - |
| veils | 8 | - | - |
| voile | 8 | a light semitransparent fabric | - |
| vrils | 8 | - | - |
| vails | 8 | - | - |
| utile | 5 | being of use or service | - |
| nills | 5 | - | - |
| noily | 8 | - | - |
| noils | 5 | - | - |
| pails | 7 | - | - |
| whilk | 15 | - | - |
| wilds | 9 | - | - |
| wiled | 9 | - | - |
| wiles | 8 | - | - |
| wilga | 9 | - | - |
| wilis | 8 | - | - |
| wilja | 15 | - | - |
| wails | 8 | - | - |
| weils | 8 | - | - |
| yills | 8 | - | - |
| zilas | 14 | - | - |
| zills | 14 | - | - |
| filks | 12 | - | - |
| moile | 7 | - | - |
| milfs | 10 | - | - |
| pilae | 7 | - | - |
| filii | 8 | - | - |
| swile | 8 | - | - |
| tuile | 5 | - | - |
