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say it: heel
heel is a noun and verb meaning "the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation". It is pronounced /ˈhil/ — heel. It carries 11 recorded senses.
the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
the back part of the human foot
one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread
the lower end of a ship's mast
follow at the heels of a person
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.