quam

adv

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The verdict

“quam” is uncommon German (frequency #72,846 among 216 “Q” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,846
frequency rank, German
216
“Q” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - auf welche Weise, wie

Corpus desk

Index DE-quam · quam · German

quam · rank #72,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,846
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 216
  • PHOTO-FINISH qualmen

Nearest frequency peer: qualmen (-1 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 „quam“

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for quam
PropertyValue
Headwordquam
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdverb
Letters4
Frequency rank#72,846
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „quam“ im Deutschen

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

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „qualmen“ (#72,845), „quercus“ (#72,847), „Pöbeleien“ (#72,844). Unter 216 „Q“-Lemmata liegt „quam“ bei #72,846. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

quam is uncommon German at frequency #72,846 among 216 “Q” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for quam, 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is quam, spelled Q-U-A-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    auf welche Weise, wie
  2. 2
    in welchem Grade, wie sehr, wie wenig
  3. 3
    in welchem Grad oder Ausmaß; wie
  4. 4
    möglichst
  5. 5
    gibt den Vergleichspunkt an; als

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. „ubi erit tam crassum quam viscum, sinito frigescat.“ (Cato agr. 95)
  2. „ubi satis foderis, tum fornaci locum facito, uti quam altissima et quam minime ventosa siet.“ (Cato agr. 38,3)

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 "quam"?
"quam" is spelled Q-U-A-M.
What does "quam" mean?
As an adverb, "quam" means: auf welche Weise, wie
What language does "quam" come from?
"quam" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "quam", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

oliv#72,785Nock#72,778SCNR#72,915sham#72,925

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list