hem
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, hem sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17gem, ham
What it means
- nounthe edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
- nounthe utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- verbfold over and sew together to provide with a hem
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh eh1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
11 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 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.