Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kahm

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kahm
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut.

Etymology

From German Kahm, from Middle High German kan, from Vulgar Latin cana, from Latin cānus (“gray”).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Kahm, kan, cana, cānus

Inflected Forms

kahms (plural)

Questions

What does kahm mean?: Yeast which tends to form on fermented foods, such as sauerkraut.
Where does kahm come from?: It is traced to German.

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