rams
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#47,550
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
rams is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jeu de cartes qui se joue à trois, quatre ou cinq joueurs, avec un jeu de trente-deux cartes, et qui consiste à se débarrasser le premier des cinq jetons donnés à chacun au départ en faisant cinq l... Pronounced \ʁam\. Often confused with RM and ray.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rams |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,550 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rams is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #47,550 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Jeu de cartes qui se joue à trois, quatre ou cinq joueurs, avec un jeu de trente-deux cartes, et qui consiste à se débarrasser le premier des cinq jetons donnés à chacun au départ en faisant cinq l...".
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for rams, with forms such as "ramms", "ramss", and "rasm". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RM", "ray", "rap", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rams, spelled R-A-M-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Jeu de cartes qui se joue à trois, quatre ou cinq joueurs, avec un jeu de trente-deux cartes, et qui consiste à se débarrasser le premier des cinq jetons donnés à chacun au départ en faisant cinq levées.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ramms,ramss,rasm,rmas,rrams
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rams
Misspelling Variants of "rams"
Frequency rank: #47,550 in French
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