exams
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, exams sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1maxes
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and exams is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is exam — a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 g z ae1 m z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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- dams
- diagrams
- grams
- hams
- jams
- kilograms
- lambs
- mesdames
- milligrams
- programs
- rams
- scrams
- slams
- telegrams
- yams
- cams
- drams
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- histograms
- holograms
- logjams
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: maxes.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.