elm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, elm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mel
- One letter away
- 5elf, elk
What it means
- nounany of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
- nounhard tough wood of an elm tree; used for e.g. implements and furniture
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 l m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mel.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.