germs
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, germs sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7terms, berms
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and germs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is germ — anything that provides inspiration for later work. 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 jh er1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- terms
- berms
- perms
- germy
- geums
- herms
- derms
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.