Hamas
/həˈmɑs/
"hamas" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hamas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,434
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hamas · Hamas · English
Hamas · rank #12,434 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,434
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH halftime
Nearest frequency peer: halftime (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Hamas”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- guarded
guarded
87,570 corpus weight
- guitarist
guitarist
87,569 corpus weight
- halftime
halftime
87,568 corpus weight
- Hamas
Hamas
87,567 corpus weight
- Harriet
Harriet
87,566 corpus weight
- hash
hash
87,565 corpus weight
What this shows “Hamas” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Hamas |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /həˈmɑs/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Hamas”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Hamas (IPA /həˈmɑs/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #12,434 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hamas, with forms such as "ahmas", "haams", and "hamass". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "has", "HMS", "hats", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). A few speakers pronounce it with /x/ to imitate Hebrew חַמַאס instead. The correct English form is Hamas, spelled H-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1A Palestinian Islamist militant group and political organization.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hamas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hamas knew there would be massive retaliations.
[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic حَمَاس (ḥamās, literally “enthusiasm”), an acronym for حَرَكَة اَلْمُقَاوَمَةِ الْإِسْلَامِيَّةِ (ḥarakat al-muqāwama l-ʔislāmiyya, “Islamic Resistance Movement”). A few speakers pronounce it with /x/ to imitate Hebrew חַמַאס instead.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmas
- haams
- hamass
- hammas
- hamsa
- hhamas
- hmaas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hamas - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Hamas", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).