pam
\ˈpãmː\
The verdict
“pam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,927) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de bam par durcissement (b → p).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pam · pam · French
pam · rank #19,927 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,927
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pandémie
Nearest frequency peer: pandémie (+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 « pam »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- obtiens
obtiens
80,077 corpus weight
- ossements
ossements
80,076 corpus weight
- pam
pam
80,074 corpus weight
- pandémie
pandémie
80,073 corpus weight
- panthère
panthère
80,072 corpus weight
- parages
parages
80,071 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pam » 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 | pam |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpãmː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pam »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pam is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈpãmː\. Frequency #19,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de bam par durcissement (b → p).".
pam doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pam, spelled P-A-M.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de bam par durcissement (b → p).
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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