dams
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dams sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mads
- One letter away
- 25dabs, dads
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and dams is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is dam — a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea. 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 d ae1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- clams
- crams
- damns
- diagrams
- exams
- grams
- hams
- jams
- kilograms
- lambs
- mesdames
- milligrams
- programs
- rams
- scrams
- slams
- telegrams
- yams
- cams
- drams
- electrocardiograms
- histograms
- holograms
- logjams
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mads.
One letter away
- dabs
- dads
- dais
- dame
- damn
- damp
- days
- dims
- hams
- jams
- rams
- yams
- cams
- dags
- lams
- tams
- bams
- dahs
- daks
- dals
- daps
- daws
- doms
- gams
- pams
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.