slime
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slime sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3limes, miles
- One letter away
- 8slice, slide
What it means
- nounany thick, viscous matter
- verbcover or stain with slime
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l ay1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bedtime
- chime
- climb
- crime
- daytime
- dime
- enzyme
- grime
- lifetime
- lime
- lunchtime
- maritime
- meantime
- mime
- nighttime
- overtime
- pantomime
- paradigm
- pastime
- prime
- ragtime
- rhyme
- sometime
- springtime
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: limes, miles, smile.
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.