thumb

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, thumb sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2thump, rhumb

• nounthe thick short innermost digit of the forelimb
• nounthe part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb
• nouna convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as th 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

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• thump
• rhumb

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TH1,174
• Ends B
• 5 letters starting T

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.