ihm
\iːm\
The verdict
“ihm” is uncommon French (frequency #66,811 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a pronoun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,811
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lui : troisième personne du masculin et neutre singulier au datif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ihm · ihm · French
ihm · rank #66,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,811
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH iel
Nearest frequency peer: iel (-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 « ihm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- héraultais
héraultais
33,193 corpus weight
- iel
iel
33,191 corpus weight
- ihm
ihm
33,190 corpus weight
- illuminées
illuminées
33,189 corpus weight
- imaginations
imaginations
33,188 corpus weight
- imbécillité
imbécillité
33,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ihm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ihm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \iːm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #66,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ihm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ihm is uncommon French at frequency #66,811 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as apronoun, transcribed \iːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lui : troisième personne du masculin et neutre singulier au datif.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ihm in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 ihm, spelled I-H-M.
Definition
- 1Lui : troisième personne du masculin et neutre singulier au datif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ihm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er zuckte mit den Schultern, es schien ihm vollständig schnuppe zu sein.
Wie viel Zeit blieb ihm noch als Mann? Das Alter mit dieser verflixten 6 an der Stelle der Zehner machte ihn anfällig.
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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