# Hama vs Hamm

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Hama
*name · IPA /ˈhɑːmə/ · frequency rank #41,166*
A city in Syria.

### Hamm
*name · frequency rank #32,839*
An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hama-vs-hamm