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The verdict

“jm” is uncommon German (frequency #51,442 among 699 “J” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,442
frequency rank, German
699
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ihm

Corpus desk

Index DE-jm · jm · German

jm · rank #51,442 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,442
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-0 0 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 699
  • PHOTO-FINISH jungem

Nearest frequency peer: jungem (+2 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „jm“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „jm“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for jm
PropertyValue
Headwordjm
LanguageGerman
Part of speechPronoun
IPA[…]
Letters2
Frequency rank#51,442
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „jm“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.jmfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „jungem“ (#51,444), „Kaarst“ (#51,446), „Iraq“ (#51,437). Unter 699 „J“-Lemmata liegt „jm“ bei #51,442. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jm is uncommon German at frequency #51,442 among 699 “J” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ihm".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for jm, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is jm, spelled J-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    ihm

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how jm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Vnd da sie zu dem Volck kamen, trat zu jm ein Mensch, vnd fiel jm zu fuessen.“
  2. „Mit jm ist all mein frewdt gestorben.“

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jm"?
"jm" is spelled J-M. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "jm" mean?
As a pronoun, "jm" means: ihm
How do you pronounce "jm"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jm" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jm" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list