sham
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sham sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2hams, mash
- One letter away
- 13seam, slam
What it means
- adjectiveadopted in order to deceive
- nounsomething that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- nouna person who makes deceitful pretenses
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ae1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
56 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- am
- anagram
- cam
- clam
- cram
- dam
- damn
- diagram
- diaphragm
- exam
- gram
- ham
- histogram
- jam
- jamb
- kilogram
- lamb
- milligram
- monogram
- program
- ram
- scram
- slam
- swam
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: hams, mash.
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.