Heard spelling

corimb

Spelled corymb. y doing the work of i

Corimb is the closest anyone gets by ear.

Every letter is right except the vowel, which is a y rather than an i.

That y is the last surviving mark of the Greek. Korymbos had an upsilon, Latin transliterated it y, and English kept the letter while giving it the sound of a plain i. Nothing you can hear will tell you which of the two to write.

Say

KORR-im, with the b usually silent

Letters

C-O-R-Y-M-B