rhum
\ʁɔm\
The verdict
“rhum” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,778. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,778
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Eau-de-vie obtenue par la distillation de la mélasse ou du jus de canne à sucre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rhum · rhum · French
rhum · rank #10,778 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,778
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH représailles
Nearest frequency peer: représailles (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rhum »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rapporteur
rapporteur
89,226 corpus weight
- remédier
remédier
89,225 corpus weight
- représailles
représailles
89,224 corpus weight
- rhum
rhum
89,223 corpus weight
- rime
rime
89,222 corpus weight
- river
river
89,221 corpus weight
What this shows « rhum » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rhum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rhum »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rhum (IPA \ʁɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,778 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Eau-de-vie obtenue par la distillation de la mélasse ou du jus de canne à sucre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rhum, with forms such as "hrum", "rhhum", and "rhmu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ru", "RM", "rue", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 rhum, spelled R-H-U-M.
Definition
- 1Eau-de-vie obtenue par la distillation de la mélasse ou du jus de canne à sucre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rhum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au milieu de la nuit, plusieurs d’entre eux vinrent hurler à notre porte en demandant encore du rhum ; nous n’y fîmes aucune attention.
À mesure que le rhum vieillit, il se colore, se brunit ; il prend, avec une odeur piquante, une saveur acre & desséchante, dont la nuance empyreumatique huileuse fait dire, à ceux qui n’y sont point accoutumés, que cette liqueur sent le vieux cuir.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hrum
- rhhum
- rhmu
- rhumm
- rrhum
- ruhm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rhum - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).