wam
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The verdict
“wam” is uncommon German (frequency #89,796 among 2,930 “W” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,796
- frequency rank, German
- 2,930
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dativ Plural des Pronomens wy
Corpus desk
Index DE-wam · wam · German
wam · rank #89,796 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,796
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,930
- PHOTO-FINISH Waldspazierga…
Nearest frequency peer: Waldspaziergang (-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 „wam“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Waldspazier…
Waldspaziergang
10,206 corpus weight
- wam
wam
10,205 corpus weight
- Wanderpokal
Wanderpokal
10,204 corpus weight
- Wanduhr
Wanduhr
10,203 corpus weight
- waschechten
waschechten
10,202 corpus weight
- Waschung
Waschung
10,201 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „wam“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wam |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Unknown |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #89,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „wam“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
wam is uncommon German at frequency #89,796 among 2,930 “W” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dativ Plural des Pronomens wy".
No generated misspelling entries exist for wam in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is wam, spelled W-A-M.
Definition
- 1Dativ Plural des Pronomens wy
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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