bosom

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bosom sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1booms

One letter away

2besom, boson

• nounthe chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
• nouna person's breast or chest
• nouncloth that covers the chest or breasts

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b uh1 z ah0 m — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: booms.

The whole set on one page.

• besom
• boson

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BO1,268
• Ends M
• 5 letters starting B

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.