balmy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, balmy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lamby
- One letter away
- 7balms, baldy
What it means
- adjectiveinformal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- adjectivemild and pleasant
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aa1 m iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- salami
- commie
- mommy
- pastrami
- swami
- tommy
- tsunami
- ami
- rami
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lamby.
One letter away
- balms
- baldy
- balky
- bally
- barmy
- palmy
- malmy
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.