rams
\ʁam\
The verdict
“rams” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #47,550 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #47,550
- frequency rank, French
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | 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) |
Where “rams” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rams is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for rams, with forms such as "ramms", "ramss", and "rasm". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is rams, spelled R-A-M-S.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rams - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “rams”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is R-A-M-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʁam\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “RM” - see the side-by-side comparison. rams vs RM
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.