sum
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sum sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1mus
- One letter away
- 14bum, gum
What it means
- nouna quantity of money
- nouna quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers
- nounthe final aggregate
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ah1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- become
- bum
- chum
- come
- crumb
- drum
- dumb
- from
- glum
- gum
- hum
- humdrum
- income
- mum
- numb
- outcome
- overcome
- plum
- rum
- scum
- slum
- some
- strum
- succumb
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: mus.
One letter away
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.