Hamed
"hamed" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hamed” is uncommon English (frequency #59,437 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,437
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Arabic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hamed · Hamed · English
Hamed · rank #59,437 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,437
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hackneyed
Nearest frequency peer: hackneyed (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Hamed”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- haar
haar
40,566 corpus weight
- hackneyed
hackneyed
40,565 corpus weight
- Hamed
Hamed
40,564 corpus weight
- haya
haya
40,562 corpus weight
- Heathcliff
Heathcliff
40,561 corpus weight
- heckle
heckle
40,560 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Hamed” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hamed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hamed” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hamed is uncommon English at frequency #59,437 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Hamed, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Hamed, spelled H-A-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Arabic.
- 2A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hamed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Shortly after Surrey high school student Hamed Nastoh (called a “faggot” by classmates) killed himself by jumping off a bridge, James Chamberlain wrote a letter to the editor of a small newspaper called the Peace Arch News.
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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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.