drum
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, drum sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6drug, arum
What it means
- nouna musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end
- nounthe sound of a drum
- nouna bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r ah1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- become
- bum
- chum
- come
- crumb
- dumb
- from
- glum
- gum
- hum
- humdrum
- income
- mum
- numb
- outcome
- overcome
- plum
- rum
- scum
- slum
- some
- strum
- succumb
- sum
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- drug
- arum
- dram
- drub
- doum
- grum
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.