germ

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, germ 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

6term, berm

• nounanything that provides inspiration for later work
• nouna small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
• nouna minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh er1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• affirm
• bookworm
• confirm
• earthworm
• firm
• infirm
• sperm
• squirm
• term
• worm
• berm
• cutworm
• midterm
• reaffirm
• reconfirm
• therm
• endosperm
• herm

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• term
• berm
• perm
• geum
• herm
• derm

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GE689
• Ends M
• 4 letters starting G

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.