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khum

noun

khum is a noun meaning “A commune of Cambodia, a subdivision of a srok” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-U-M, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khum is khums.

What does khum mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A commune of Cambodia, a subdivision of a srok.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of khum

  • khums plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is khum?

Khum appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does khum come from?

From Khmer ឃុំ (khum).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).