psalm
\sɑːm\
The verdict
“psalm” is uncommon French (frequency #99,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,519
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Psaume.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psalm · psalm · French
psalm · rank #99,519 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,519
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prêchez
Nearest frequency peer: prêchez (-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 « psalm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préopératoi…
préopératoire
485 corpus weight
- préétablie
préétablie
484 corpus weight
- prêchez
prêchez
483 corpus weight
- psalm
psalm
482 corpus weight
- psychothéra…
psychothérapeutes
481 corpus weight
- puc
puc
480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psalm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psalm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɑːm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,519 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psalm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psalm is uncommon French at frequency #99,519 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \sɑːm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Psaume.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for psalm, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 psalm, spelled P-S-A-L-M.
Definition
- 1Psaume.
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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