sperm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sperm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1perms
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nounthe male reproductive cell; the male gamete
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p er1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affirm
- bookworm
- confirm
- earthworm
- firm
- germ
- infirm
- squirm
- term
- worm
- berm
- cutworm
- midterm
- reaffirm
- reconfirm
- therm
- endosperm
- herm
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: perms.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.