eval
/ˈiː.væl/noun, verb
eval is spelled E-V-A-L: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, eval means “Abbreviation of evaluation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of eval is evals.
How many letters and syllables are in eval?
| Letters | 4: E-V-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 45,947th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is eval?
Eval appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,947th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce eval?
- US /ˈiː.væl/
As an adjective (“Relating to time or duration”): /ˈiːvəl/.
Eval has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-eval.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with eval
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: evil (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with eval?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as eval (/ivæl/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: vale, veal, lave, leva, avel.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of eval
- evals plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- evaling US, participle, present
- evalling UK, participle, present
- evaled US, participle, past
- evalled UK, participle, past
- aeval
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does eval mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of evaluation.
Scans are unable to determine subject's [Gandrayda's] age, but psych eval suggests a high degree of youthfulness.
verb
- 1
To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteRelating to time or duration.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).