prism
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, prism sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1prims
- One letter away
- 2priss, prise
What it means
- nouna polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
- nounoptical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p r ih1 z ah0 m — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
190 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alcoholism
- altruism
- anachronism
- antagonism
- aphorism
- cannibalism
- capitalism
- catechism
- commercialism
- communism
- conservatism
- consumerism
- criticism
- cynicism
- determinism
- dualism
- egoism
- egotism
- elitism
- escapism
- euphemism
- evangelism
- fascism
- favoritism
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: prims.
One letter away
- priss
- prise
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.