hamac
^((h aspiré))\a.mak\
The verdict
“hamac” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,356. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,356
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lit formé d’un morceau de toile ou d’un filet, suspendu horizontalement à deux points fixes par ses extrémités, de manière à pouvoir se balancer, dormir ou se reposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamac · hamac · French
hamac · rank #37,356 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,356
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Haguenau
Nearest frequency peer: Haguenau (-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 « hamac »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grimpeurs
grimpeurs
62,648 corpus weight
- géographes
géographes
62,647 corpus weight
- Haguenau
Haguenau
62,646 corpus weight
- hamac
hamac
62,645 corpus weight
- Hampton
Hampton
62,644 corpus weight
- harkis
harkis
62,643 corpus weight
What this shows « hamac » 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 | hamac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.mak\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #37,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hamac »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hamac (IPA ^((h aspiré))\a.mak\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,356 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Lit formé d’un morceau de toile ou d’un filet, suspendu horizontalement à deux points fixes par ses extrémités, de manière à pouvoir se balancer, dormir ou se reposer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hamac, with forms such as "ahmac", "haamc", and "hamacc". 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, "hara", "huma", "hana", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is hamac, spelled H-A-M-A-C.
Definition
- 1Lit formé d’un morceau de toile ou d’un filet, suspendu horizontalement à deux points fixes par ses extrémités, de manière à pouvoir se balancer, dormir ou se reposer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hamac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cadre pendu au plafond par quatre cordes, garni de quelques poignées de paille et d’un matelas des plus minces, allait me servir de hamac.
[…] elle avait aperçu quelques vêtements jetés en désordre dans un hamac et pendant au-dehors.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmac
- haamc
- hamacc
- hamca
- hammac
- hhamac
- hmaac
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hamac - 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 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).