helm
\helm\
The verdict
“helm” is uncommon French (frequency #54,002 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,002
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poison, venin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-helm · helm · French
helm · rank #54,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,002
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heaume
Nearest frequency peer: heaume (-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 « helm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hartz
hartz
46,002 corpus weight
- hasardeuses
hasardeuses
46,001 corpus weight
- heaume
heaume
46,000 corpus weight
- helm
helm
45,999 corpus weight
- hermaphrodi…
hermaphrodite
45,998 corpus weight
- Herstal
Herstal
45,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « helm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | helm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \helm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « helm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
helm is uncommon French at frequency #54,002 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \helm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poison, venin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for helm, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is helm, spelled H-E-L-M.
Definition
- 1Poison, venin.
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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