gnome
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gnome sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1genom
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- nouna short pithy saying expressing a general truth
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ow1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chrome
- chromosome
- comb
- dome
- foam
- home
- honeycomb
- loam
- monochrome
- ohm
- roam
- syndrome
- tome
- aerodrome
- biome
- catacomb
- genome
- hippodrome
- nome
- rhizome
- shalom
- velodrome
- astrodome
- combe
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: genom.
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.