Elam
\ˈiːləm\
The verdict
“Elam” is uncommon French (frequency #81,987 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,987
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elam · Elam · French
Elam · rank #81,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,987
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH eille
Nearest frequency peer: eille (-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 « Elam »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- effervescen…
effervescents
18,017 corpus weight
- eille
eille
18,015 corpus weight
- Elam
Elam
18,014 corpus weight
- elme
elme
18,011 corpus weight
- embellis
embellis
18,010 corpus weight
- emprunta
emprunta
18,009 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Elam » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈiːləm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Elam » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Elam is uncommon French at frequency #81,987 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈiːləm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élam.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Elam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Elam, spelled E-L-A-M.
Definition
- 1Élam.
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.
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