lahm
\laːm\
The verdict
“lahm” is uncommon French (frequency #60,150 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,150
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boiteux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-lahm · lahm · French
lahm · rank #60,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,150
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH lacustres
Nearest frequency peer: lacustres (-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 « lahm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- labellisati…
labellisation
39,854 corpus weight
- laborieusem…
laborieusement
39,853 corpus weight
- lacustres
lacustres
39,852 corpus weight
- lahm
lahm
39,851 corpus weight
- landscape
landscape
39,849 corpus weight
- lapider
lapider
39,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « lahm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lahm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \laːm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « lahm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
lahm is uncommon French at frequency #60,150 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \laːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boiteux.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for lahm in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is lahm, spelled L-A-H-M.
Definition
- 1Boiteux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lahm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mein Bein ist lahm.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).