gammon
/ˈɡæmən/
"gammon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gammon” is uncommon English (frequency #52,340 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,340
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gammon · gammon · English
gammon · rank #52,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,340
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Gagnon
Nearest frequency peer: Gagnon (-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 “gammon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- frilly
frilly
47,666 corpus weight
- Gagnon
Gagnon
47,662 corpus weight
- gammon
gammon
47,661 corpus weight
- gangway
gangway
47,660 corpus weight
- GCHQ
GCHQ
47,658 corpus weight
- generality
generality
47,657 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gammon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gammon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡæmən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gammon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gammon is uncommon English at frequency #52,340 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡæmən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cut of quick-cured pork leg.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for gammon in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English *gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Doublet of jambon and jamon. The correct English form is gammon, spelled G-A-M-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gammon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.
Etymology
From Middle English *gammon, gambon, from Old French gambon (compare modern French jambon (“ham”)), from gambe (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Doublet of jambon and jamon.
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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