thame
"thame" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thame” is uncommon English (frequency #76,396 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,396
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Them.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thame · thame · English
thame · rank #76,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,396
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Tewksbury
Nearest frequency peer: Tewksbury (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “thame”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tengu
tengu
23,609 corpus weight
- tenon
tenon
23,608 corpus weight
- Tewksbury
Tewksbury
23,607 corpus weight
- thame
thame
23,605 corpus weight
- thrifting
thrifting
23,602 corpus weight
- tilde
tilde
23,601 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “thame” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thame |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,396 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “thame” in English
Rare enough to double-check
thame is uncommon English at frequency #76,396 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as apronoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Them.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for thame, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English thame. The correct English form is thame, spelled T-H-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Them.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how thame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And to charge thame hereto under the pain of rebellion and putting of thame to the horne […]
[…] that we communicat with thame in nathing that may appeir to manteane or defend thame […]
Etymology
From Middle English thame.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).