kadam
"kadam" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kadam” is uncommon English (frequency #96,112 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,112
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kadam · kadam · English
kadam · rank #96,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,112
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kadima
Nearest frequency peer: Kadima (+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 “kadam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Joye
Joye
3,895 corpus weight
- jujutsu
jujutsu
3,891 corpus weight
- kadam
kadam
3,889 corpus weight
- Kadima
Kadima
3,888 corpus weight
- Kawashima
Kawashima
3,883 corpus weight
- Kenmare
Kenmare
3,881 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kadam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kadam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kadam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kadam is uncommon English at frequency #96,112 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for kadam, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Cf. Bengali কদম (kodom), corruption of Sanskrit कदम्ब (kadamba). The correct English form is kadam, spelled K-A-D-A-M.
Definition
- 1A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kadam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kinaram made the elephant sit under a large kadam tree.
Etymology
Cf. Bengali কদম (kodom), corruption of Sanskrit कदम्ब (kadamba).
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).