cwm
/kuːm/
"cwm" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cwm” is uncommon English (frequency #65,030 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,030
- frequency rank, English
- 43,570
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cwm |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuːm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #65,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cwm” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cwm is uncommon English at frequency #65,030 among 43,570 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kuːm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.".
cwm has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe. The correct English form is cwm, spelled C-W-M.
Definition
- 1A valley head created through glacial erosion and with a shape similar to an amphitheatre.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Welsh cwm (“valley”). Doublet of combe.
This word in other languages
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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Using “cwm”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-W-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.