Tam
[tam]
The verdict
“Tam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,801) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,801
- frequency rank, German
- 2,684
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname
Corpus desk
Index DE-tam · Tam · German
Tam · rank #32,801 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,801
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,684
- PHOTO-FINISH tacho
Nearest frequency peer: tacho (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Tam“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Säuglinge
Säuglinge
67,203 corpus weight
- Südstaaten
Südstaaten
67,202 corpus weight
- tacho
tacho
67,201 corpus weight
- Tam
Tam
67,200 corpus weight
- tears
tears
67,198 corpus weight
- Teilnehmerin
Teilnehmerin
67,197 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Tam“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Tam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [tam] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,801 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Tam“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Tam is neighbouring look-alikes ("TO", "TV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [tam]. Frequency #32,801 among 2,684 “T” headwords. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".
Zero misspellings are on record for Tam in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TO", "TV", "tu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Tam, spelled T-A-M.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Tam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tam geht schon zur Schule.
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.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).