beam
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, beam sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2bema, mabe
- One letter away
- 11bead, beak
What it means
- nouna signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
- nounlong thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction
- nouna group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b 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.
- bloodstream
- cream
- daydream
- deem
- downstream
- dream
- esteem
- extreme
- gleam
- mainstream
- midstream
- moonbeam
- ream
- redeem
- regime
- scheme
- scream
- seam
- seem
- steam
- stream
- supreme
- team
- teem
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: bema, mabe.
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.