worm
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, worm sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10form, norm
What it means
- nounany of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae
- nouna person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- nouna software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w 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
- sperm
- squirm
- term
- berm
- cutworm
- midterm
- reaffirm
- reconfirm
- therm
- endosperm
- herm
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.