tomb
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tomb sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5bomb, comb
What it means
- nouna place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- assume
- ballroom
- bathroom
- bedroom
- bloom
- boom
- bridegroom
- broom
- classroom
- consume
- costume
- courtroom
- doom
- exhume
- fume
- gloom
- groom
- headroom
- heirloom
- legume
- loom
- perfume
- plume
- presume
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.