Qassam
"qassam" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Qassam” is uncommon English (frequency #82,697 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,697
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The Qassam rocket, a type of homemade rocket used by Hamas militants in Gaza.
Corpus desk
Index EN-qassam · Qassam · English
Qassam · rank #82,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,697
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH pwn
Nearest frequency peer: pwn (-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 “Qassam”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pwn
pwn
17,305 corpus weight
- Qassam
Qassam
17,304 corpus weight
- Qinghai
Qinghai
17,303 corpus weight
- Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl
17,302 corpus weight
- Rabelais
Rabelais
17,300 corpus weight
- radian
radian
17,299 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Qassam” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Qassam |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #82,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Qassam” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Qassam is uncommon English at frequency #82,697 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Qassam has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unadapted borrowing from Arabic قَسَّام (qassām); named after Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. The correct English form is Qassam, spelled Q-A-S-S-A-M.
Definition
- 1The Qassam rocket, a type of homemade rocket used by Hamas militants in Gaza.
- 2Any rocket fired from Gaza.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Arabic قَسَّام (qassām); named after Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).