gums
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gums sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2mugs, smug
- One letter away
- 14bums, gems
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gums is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gum — a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing. 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 g ah1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- becomes
- bums
- chums
- comes
- crumbs
- drums
- hums
- incomes
- outcomes
- overcomes
- plums
- rums
- slums
- strums
- succumbs
- sums
- thumbs
- mums
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: mugs, smug.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.