ohm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ohm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mho
- One letter away
- 2ohs, oho
What it means
- nouna unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chrome
- chromosome
- comb
- dome
- foam
- gnome
- home
- honeycomb
- loam
- monochrome
- roam
- syndrome
- tome
- aerodrome
- biome
- catacomb
- genome
- hippodrome
- nome
- rhizome
- shalom
- velodrome
- astrodome
- combe
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mho.
One letter away
- ohs
- oho
Same length, one position changed. <1% 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.