hampering
"hampering" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hampering” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #48,265. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,265
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That which hampers; an impediment.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hampering · hampering · English
hampering · rank #48,265 · 14 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,265
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Haan
Nearest frequency peer: Haan (-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 “hampering”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gringo
gringo
51,739 corpus weight
- gunslinger
gunslinger
51,738 corpus weight
- Haan
Haan
51,737 corpus weight
- hampering
hampering
51,736 corpus weight
- Hansard
Hansard
51,735 corpus weight
- Harps
Harps
51,734 corpus weight
What this shows “hampering” 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 | hampering |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #48,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “hampering”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around hampering, anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,265 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That which hampers; an impediment.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for hampering, with forms such as "ahmpering", "hamepring", and "hammpering". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "happening", "hamstring", "hammering", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hampering, spelled H-A-M-P-E-R-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That which hampers; an impediment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hampering appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
25 February 1926, Ernest Hemingway, Letter to Isabel Simmons I still love you, in spite of the hamperings of your married state and I think Francis is a grand guy and that you married damned well […]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmpering
- hamepring
- hammpering
- hampeirng
- hamperign
- hamperingg
- hamperinng
- hampernig
- hamperring
- hamppering
- hampreing
- hapmering
- hhampering
- hmapering
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hampering - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "hampering", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).