gamma
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gamma sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1magma
- One letter away
- 5gammy, mamma
What it means
- nounthe 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet
- nouna unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ae1 m ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- panorama
- docudrama
- grama
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: magma.
One letter away
- gammy
- mamma
- gamba
- gemma
- gumma
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.