seems
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, seems sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1semes
- One letter away
- 10deems, seams
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and seems is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is seem — give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect. 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 s iy1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beams
- creams
- daydreams
- deems
- dreams
- extremes
- gleams
- moonbeams
- reams
- redeems
- regimes
- schemes
- screams
- seams
- steams
- streams
- teams
- teems
- themes
- racemes
- triremes
- biremes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: semes.
One letter away
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.