hamon
"hamon" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hamon” is uncommon English (frequency #58,735 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,735
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A wavy line found on steel products that have been hardened differentially, with soft and hard steel sections, where the tempered steel is separated from the softer parts by the hamon.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hamon · hamon · English
hamon · rank #58,735 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,735
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hants
Nearest frequency peer: Hants (+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 “hamon”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- griping
griping
41,273 corpus weight
- groomer
groomer
41,272 corpus weight
- grudging
grudging
41,271 corpus weight
- Hader
Hader
41,268 corpus weight
- hamon
hamon
41,266 corpus weight
- Hants
Hants
41,265 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hamon” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hamon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hamon” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hamon is uncommon English at frequency #58,735 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A wavy line found on steel products that have been hardened differentially, with soft and hard steel sections, where the tempered steel is separated from the softer parts by the hamon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hamon, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 刃文. The correct English form is hamon, spelled H-A-M-O-N.
Definition
- 1A wavy line found on steel products that have been hardened differentially, with soft and hard steel sections, where the tempered steel is separated from the softer parts by the hamon.
Etymology
From Japanese 刃文.
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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