hammock
/ˈhæmək/
"hammock" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hammock” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,182. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,182
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hammock · hammock · English
hammock · rank #24,182 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,182
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH habitual
Nearest frequency peer: habitual (-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 “hammock”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- grouse
grouse
75,823 corpus weight
- growl
growl
75,822 corpus weight
- habitual
habitual
75,820 corpus weight
- hammock
hammock
75,819 corpus weight
- hater
hater
75,818 corpus weight
- hazy
hazy
75,817 corpus weight
What this shows “hammock” 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 | hammock |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhæmək/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hammock”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around hammock (IPA /ˈhæmək/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,182 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for hammock, with forms such as "ahmmock", "hammcok", and "hammocck". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Hammond", "Hancock", "hemlock", 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 Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering the… The correct English form is hammock, spelled H-A-M-M-O-C-K.
Definition
- 1A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
- 2A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hammock appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]
[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish hamaca, from Taíno *hamaka (compare Lokono hamaka, Wayuu jama'a), from Proto-Arawak *hamaka. Columbus, in the narrative of his first voyage, says: “A great many Indians in canoes came to the ship to-day for the purpose of bartering their cotton, and hamacas, or nets, in which they sleep.”
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmmock
- hammcok
- hammocck
- hammockk
- hammokc
- hamock
- hamomck
- hhammock
- hmamock
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hammock - 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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