combs
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, combs sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9bombs, comas
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and combs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is comb — a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ow1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chromosomes
- domes
- foams
- gnomes
- homes
- ohms
- roams
- syndromes
- tomes
- aerodromes
- biomes
- catacombs
- rhizomes
- velodromes
- combes
- cyclostomes
- liposomes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.