yam
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, yam sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1may
- One letter away
- 19cam, dam
What it means
- nounedible tuber of any of several yams
- nounany of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots
- nounsweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y 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
- sham
- slam
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: may.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.