Helms
\hɛlms\
The verdict
“Helms” is uncommon French (frequency #79,380 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,380
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Génitif singulier de Helm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-helms · Helms · French
Helms · rank #79,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,380
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Hedwige
Nearest frequency peer: Hedwige (-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 « Helms »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haya
haya
20,624 corpus weight
- hCG
hCG
20,623 corpus weight
- Hedwige
Hedwige
20,622 corpus weight
- Helms
Helms
20,621 corpus weight
- hexagones
hexagones
20,620 corpus weight
- hir
hir
20,619 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Helms » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Helms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \hɛlms\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Helms » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Helms is uncommon French at frequency #79,380 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \hɛlms\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Génitif singulier de Helm.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Helms, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Helms, spelled H-E-L-M-S.
Definition
- 1Génitif singulier de Helm.
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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