Haslem
"haslem" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Haslem” is uncommon English (frequency #98,207 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,207
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-haslem · Haslem · English
Haslem · rank #98,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,207
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Hartfield
Nearest frequency peer: Hartfield (-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 “Haslem”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hanker
hanker
1,801 corpus weight
- harddrive
harddrive
1,799 corpus weight
- Hartfield
Hartfield
1,795 corpus weight
- Haslem
Haslem
1,794 corpus weight
- Hattersley
Hattersley
1,793 corpus weight
- heavyset
heavyset
1,791 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Haslem” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Haslem |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Haslem” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Haslem is uncommon English at frequency #98,207 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Haslem, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: A variant spelling of Haslam. The correct English form is Haslem, spelled H-A-S-L-E-M.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
A variant spelling of Haslam.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).