balm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, balm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lamb, blam
- One letter away
- 10bald, bale
What it means
- nounany of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing
- nounsemisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aa1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: lamb, blam.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.