Kham
/kʌm/
"kham" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kham” is uncommon English (frequency #87,449 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,449
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-kham · Kham · English
Kham · rank #87,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,449
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH KERS
Nearest frequency peer: KERS (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kham”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kero
kero
12,555 corpus weight
- KERS
KERS
12,554 corpus weight
- Kham
Kham
12,552 corpus weight
- Kho
Kho
12,550 corpus weight
- Kickapoo
Kickapoo
12,548 corpus weight
- Kii
Kii
12,547 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kham” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kham |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kʌm/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kham” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kham is uncommon English at frequency #87,449 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kʌm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and ...".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Kham, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Tibetan ཁམས (khams). The correct English form is Kham, spelled K-H-A-M.
Definition
- 1One of the three traditional regions of Tibet, covering a land area largely divided between eastern parts of the Tibet Autonomous Region, western parts of Sichuan, and smaller parts of Qinghai and Yunnan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kham appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the summer of 1956, Chinese troops bombed a large monastery in the eastern Kham region. The Chinese had begun to destroy the religious and cultural artifacts of Tibet.
The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told the French newspaper Le Monde that the army opened fire during a protest in the eastern Tibetan region of Kham on Monday.[…] “We know about disturbances in the Kham region. But we do not have any details or figures about injuries or deaths,” said the aide, Chhime Chhoekyapa, in the northern town of Dharamsala.[…] “…
Etymology
Borrowed from Tibetan ཁམས (khams).
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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