chama
/ˈtʃɑːmə/
"chama" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chama” is uncommon English (frequency #69,724 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,724
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several types of informal cooperative society.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chama · chama · English
chama · rank #69,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,724
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH certificated
Nearest frequency peer: certificated (-1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “chama”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- categorisat…
categorisation
30,281 corpus weight
- Ceri
Ceri
30,279 corpus weight
- certificated
certificated
30,278 corpus weight
- chama
chama
30,277 corpus weight
- cheapskate
cheapskate
30,276 corpus weight
- chert
chert
30,274 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chama” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chama |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtʃɑːmə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chama” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chama is uncommon English at frequency #69,724 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtʃɑːmə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for chama, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Swahili chama (“organisation, society”). The correct English form is chama, spelled C-H-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Any of several types of informal cooperative society.
- 2Any of several types of informal cooperative society.
Etymology
From Swahili chama (“organisation, society”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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