hems
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hems sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mesh
- One letter away
- 13gems, hams
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hems is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hem — the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down. 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 hh eh1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mesh.
One letter away
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.