Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like UM often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: album, algum, aurum.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| album | 5 | 2 | |
| algum | 5 | 2 | |
| aurum | 5 | 2 | |
| begum | 5 | 2 | |
| cecum | 5 | 2 | |
| datum | 5 | 2 | |
| degum | 5 | 2 | |
| durum | 5 | 2 | |
| fanum | 5 | 2 | |
| filum | 5 | 2 | |
| forum | 5 | 2 | |
| hilum | 5 | 2 | |
| hokum | 5 | 2 | |
| ileum | 5 | 2 | |
| ilium | 5 | 2 | |
| imaum | 5 | 2 | |
| jorum | 5 | 2 | |
| jugum | 5 | 2 | |
| khoum | 5 | 1 | |
| larum | 5 | 2 | |
| linum | 5 | 2 | |
| locum | 5 | 2 | |
| notum | 5 | 2 | |
| oakum | 5 | 2 | |
| odeum | 5 | 2 | |
| odium | 5 | 2 | |
| oleum | 5 | 2 | |
| onium | 5 | 2 | |
| opium | 5 | 2 | |
| rheum | 5 | 1 | |
| sagum | 5 | 2 | |
| scrum | 5 | 1 | |
| sebum | 5 | 2 | |
| sedum | 5 | 2 | |
| serum | 5 | 2 | |
| solum | 5 | 2 | |
| strum | 5 | 1 | |
| thrum | 5 | 1 | |
| velum | 5 | 2 |
What’s typical about UM-ending words?
UM often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.