karam

noun

"karam" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“karam” is uncommon English (frequency #51,197 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,197
frequency rank, English
1,236
“K” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The tree Adina cordifolia.

Corpus desk

Index EN-karam · karam · English

karam · rank #51,197 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,197
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,236
  • PHOTO-FINISH Kante

Nearest frequency peer: Kante (-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 “karam”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “karam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for karam
PropertyValue
Headwordkaram
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters5
Frequency rank#51,197
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “karam” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).karamfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Kante” (#51,196), “Kalyan” (#51,195), “Kadri” (#51,194). Among 1,236 “K” headwords, “karam” is #51,197. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

karam is uncommon English at frequency #51,197 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The tree Adina cordifolia.".

Zero misspellings are on record for karam in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is karam, spelled K-A-R-A-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    The tree Adina cordifolia.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how karam appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. So Prince Earth-worm secured Prince Tortoies with chains and raised the earth on his back, and in a short time there was an island in the midst of the waters. Thakur Jiu then caused a karam tree to spring up, and at the foot of the karam tree he caused sirom grass to grow. He then caused dhobi grass to spring up, after which he covered the earth with all…
  2. The bride is given a comb made locally of karam wood, bracelets, chawar, which is a braid of false hair, and a blouse

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "karam"?
"karam" is spelled K-A-R-A-M.
What does "karam" mean?
As a noun, "karam" means: The tree Adina cordifolia.
What language does "karam" come from?
"karam" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "karam", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list