alms

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, alms sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2slam, lams

One letter away

11aims, alas

• nounmoney or goods contributed to the poor

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 l m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• psalms

2 other words use exactly these letters: slam, lams.

The whole set on one page.

• aims
• alas
• ales
• arms
• elms
• albs
• alma
• alps
• alts
• alls
• alme

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends S
• 4 letters starting A

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.