uhm
interjection
uhm is spelled U-H-M: 3 letters. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “uhm vs um” about 40 times a month (Google, United States). As an interjection, uhm means “Alternative form of um” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in uhm?
| Letters | 3: U-H-M |
|---|---|
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is uhm?
Uhm appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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).
Words people confuse with uhm
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: um.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with uhm?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as uhm.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: hum, muh, hmu.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does uhm mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
interjection
- 1
Alternative form of um.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).