seam
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, seam sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3same, mesa
- One letter away
- 12beam, ream
What it means
- nounjoint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- nouna slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
- nouna stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s iy1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
38 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beam
- bloodstream
- cream
- daydream
- deem
- downstream
- dream
- esteem
- extreme
- gleam
- mainstream
- midstream
- moonbeam
- ream
- redeem
- regime
- scheme
- scream
- seem
- steam
- stream
- supreme
- team
- teem
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: same, mesa, maes.
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.