tame
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tame sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4mate, meat
- One letter away
- 20came, dame
What it means
- adjectiveflat and uninspiring
- adjectivevery restrained or quiet
- adjectivebrought from wildness into a domesticated state
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t 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
4 other words use exactly these letters: mate, meat, team, meta.
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.