Elim
"elim" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Elim” is uncommon English (frequency #62,865 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,865
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם
Corpus desk
Index EN-elim · Elim · English
Elim · rank #62,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,865
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH electioneering
Nearest frequency peer: electioneering (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “Elim”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- EIC
EIC
37,139 corpus weight
- eld
eld
37,138 corpus weight
- electioneer…
electioneering
37,137 corpus weight
- Elim
Elim
37,136 corpus weight
- Emmaus
Emmaus
37,134 corpus weight
- emplacement
emplacement
37,132 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Elim” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elim |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Elim” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Elim is uncommon English at frequency #62,865 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Elim, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Elim, spelled E-L-I-M.
Definition
- 1An oasis in Sinai, New Kingdom, Egyptian Empire; Hebrew אֵילִם
- 2A village and capital of Elim district, Omusati, Namibia.
- 3A district of Omusati, Namibia. Seat: Elim.
- 4A village in Hoogeveen, Drenthe, Netherlands.
- 5A village in Agulhas Plain, Western Cape, South Africa.
- 6A village in Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom.
- 7A city in Nome district, Alaska, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Elim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
As she went through the woods where the primroses and the whitethorn were blossoming, the place seemed as the land of Elim, wherein there were twelve wells and threescore and ten palm trees.
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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