swarm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, swarm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1warms
- One letter away
- 5sward, smarm
What it means
- nouna moving crowd
- nouna group of many things in the air or on the ground
- verbbe teeming, be abuzz
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w ao1 r m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brainstorm
- chloroform
- conform
- deform
- form
- inform
- lukewarm
- norm
- perform
- platform
- rainstorm
- reform
- sandstorm
- snowstorm
- storm
- thunderstorm
- transform
- uniform
- warm
- waveform
- barnstorm
- coliform
- corm
- cuneiform
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: warms.
One letter away
- sward
- smarm
- sware
- swarf
- swart
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.