gum
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gum sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mug
- One letter away
- 16bum, gem
What it means
- nouna preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
- nounthe tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth
- nounany of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g 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
- drum
- dumb
- from
- glum
- hum
- humdrum
- income
- mum
- numb
- outcome
- overcome
- plum
- rum
- scum
- slum
- some
- strum
- succumb
- sum
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mug.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.