aum
\ɔm\
The verdict
“aum” is uncommon French (frequency #79,955 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,955
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Syllabe sacrée ou mystique, utilisée dans les prières et méditations.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aum · aum · French
aum · rank #79,955 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,955
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auditrice
Nearest frequency peer: auditrice (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- auditrice
auditrice
20,047 corpus weight
- aum
aum
20,046 corpus weight
- autogéré
autogéré
20,045 corpus weight
- avalées
avalées
20,044 corpus weight
- avoisinante
avoisinante
20,043 corpus weight
- avouerais
avouerais
20,042 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #79,955 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aum is uncommon French at frequency #79,955 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Syllabe sacrée ou mystique, utilisée dans les prières et méditations.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aum, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aum, spelled A-U-M.
Definition
- 1Syllabe sacrée ou mystique, utilisée dans les prières et méditations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’hindouisme fait de la syllabe sacrée « aum » le son originel, qui exprime le noyau de cet appel qui nous parvient du cœur du cosmos, et invite à répéter cette syllabe pour s’y connecter.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "aum"?
What does "aum" mean?
How do you pronounce "aum"?
What language does "aum" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aum", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).