theme
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, theme sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4there, these
What it means
- nounthe subject matter of a conversation or discussion
- nouna unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
- noun(music) melodic subject of a musical composition
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as th iy1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
38 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beam
- bloodstream
- cream
- daydream
- deem
- downstream
- dream
- esteem
- extreme
- gleam
- mainstream
- midstream
- moonbeam
- ream
- redeem
- regime
- scheme
- scream
- seam
- seem
- steam
- stream
- supreme
- team
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.