Hama
[ˈama]
The verdict
“Hama” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #56,371 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #56,371
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ciudad de Siria. El río Orontes y sus márgenes, así como las norias de la ciudad, atraen a los escasos turistas occidentales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈama] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hama” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Hama is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈama]. Corpus data places it at rank #56,371 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ciudad de Siria. El río Orontes y sus márgenes, así como las norias de la ciudad, atraen a los escasos turistas occidentales.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Hama in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is Hama, spelled H-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ciudad de Siria. El río Orontes y sus márgenes, así como las norias de la ciudad, atraen a los escasos turistas occidentales.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Hama”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is H-A-M-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈama] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.