broom
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, broom sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1bromo
- One letter away
- 6bloom, brood
What it means
- nouna cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
- nounany of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
- nouncommon Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r uw1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- assume
- ballroom
- bathroom
- bedroom
- bloom
- boom
- bridegroom
- classroom
- consume
- costume
- courtroom
- doom
- exhume
- fume
- gloom
- groom
- headroom
- heirloom
- legume
- loom
- perfume
- plume
- presume
- resume
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: bromo.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.