ram
The verdict
“ram” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,468) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,468
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Navire cuirassé jouant le rôle de bélier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ram · ram · French
ram · rank #11,468 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,468
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH quinquennat
Nearest frequency peer: quinquennat (-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 « ram »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- psychanalyse
psychanalyse
88,536 corpus weight
- quinquennat
quinquennat
88,534 corpus weight
- ram
ram
88,533 corpus weight
- redressement
redressement
88,532 corpus weight
- reliés
reliés
88,531 corpus weight
- reposent
reposent
88,530 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ram » 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 | ram |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #11,468 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ram »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ram is neighbouring look-alikes ("Re", "Rh", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #11,468 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Navire cuirassé jouant le rôle de bélier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ram in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Re", "Rh", "RT", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ram, spelled R-A-M.
Definition
- 1Navire cuirassé jouant le rôle de bélier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ram appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un projectile de quinze pouces du poids de deux cent quarante livres (…) traversa la cuirasse du ram confédéré.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).