Hamm
The verdict
“Hamm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,799) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,799
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de la ville de Luxembourg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamm · Hamm · French
Hamm · rank #46,799 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,799
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haletante
Nearest frequency peer: haletante (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Hamm »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- gulli
gulli
53,206 corpus weight
- guérisseurs
guérisseurs
53,205 corpus weight
- hajj
hajj
53,204 corpus weight
- haletante
haletante
53,203 corpus weight
- Hamm
Hamm
53,202 corpus weight
- Honorine
Honorine
53,199 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Hamm » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hamm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #46,799 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Hamm »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Hamm is neighbouring look-alikes ("hm", "hum", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun. Frequency #46,799 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Quartier de la ville de Luxembourg.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hamm, with forms such as "ahmm", "hhamm", and "hmam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hm", "hum", "han", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Hamm, spelled H-A-M-M.
Definition
- 1Quartier de la ville de Luxembourg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hamm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les communes de Hollerich, Rollingergrund et Hamm sont réunies à la ville de Luxembourg.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmm
- hhamm
- hmam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hamm - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hamm", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).