hame
"hame" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hame” is uncommon English (frequency #80,511 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,511
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hame · hame · English
hame · rank #80,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,511
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH Hammurabi
Nearest frequency peer: Hammurabi (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hame”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hafner
Hafner
19,494 corpus weight
- Hailsham
Hailsham
19,493 corpus weight
- hame
hame
19,490 corpus weight
- Hammurabi
Hammurabi
19,489 corpus weight
- hapa
hapa
19,488 corpus weight
- harasser
harasser
19,487 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hame” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hame |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hame” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hame is uncommon English at frequency #80,511 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.".
hame has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”). The correct English form is hame, spelled H-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1shroud, a covering, skin, membrane.
Etymology
From Middle English hame, home, from Old English hama, homa (“a cover, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *hamô (“clothes, skirt”). Cognate with Old Norse hamr and its descendants, such as Danish ham (“skin, bladder, figure”), Danish hams (“shell, sleeve”).
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.