# Hamm

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #32,839

## Definitions
1. An English topographic surname for someone who lived in an area of flat land near a river; or a habitational name from several places with the same name in southern England.
2. A city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

## Etymology
* As an English and German surname, from hamm (“enclosure, land by a stream”).
* Also as a German surname, from Hamm in Westphalia, itself from a Low German derivative of Proto-Germanic *hammō (“corner, hollow, bend”), used in the sense "river bend," similar to Hamburg.

## Easily confused with
- **hm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hm)
- **has** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-has)
- **him** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-him)
- **hat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hat)
- **hmm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hmm)
- **han** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-han)
- **hay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hay)
- **hum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hum)
- **HMS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hms)
- **hem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hem)
- **har** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-har)
- **haw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-haw)
- **hap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hap)
- **hao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hao)
- **Haq** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-haq)
- **hav** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hav)
- **Hom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hom)
- **hrm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hrm)
- **HMO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-hmo)
- **have** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hamm-vs-have)

## Common misspellings (3)
`ahmm`, `hhamm`, `hmam`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/hamm