shame
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shame sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2hames, haems
- One letter away
- 7shade, shake
What it means
- nouna painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- nouna state of dishonor
- nounan unfortunate development
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ey1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
34 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acclaim
- aflame
- aim
- became
- blame
- came
- claim
- dame
- defame
- disclaim
- exclaim
- fame
- flame
- frame
- game
- inflame
- lame
- maim
- name
- nickname
- overcame
- proclaim
- reclaim
- rename
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: hames, haems.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.