Hamas
\ha.mas\
The verdict
“Hamas” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,051. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,051
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation politique, religieuse et militaire palestinienne qui existe depuis 1987.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamas · Hamas · French
Hamas · rank #14,051 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,051
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH haïr
Nearest frequency peer: haïr (+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 « Hamas »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grottes
grottes
85,953 corpus weight
- gâchis
gâchis
85,952 corpus weight
- Hamas
Hamas
85,950 corpus weight
- haïr
haïr
85,949 corpus weight
- her
her
85,948 corpus weight
- homophobie
homophobie
85,947 corpus weight
What this shows « Hamas » 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 | Hamas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ha.mas\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hamas »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Hamas (IPA \ha.mas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,051 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisation politique, religieuse et militaire palestinienne qui existe depuis 1987.".
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", "Hans", "hara", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Hamas, spelled H-A-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Organisation politique, religieuse et militaire palestinienne qui existe depuis 1987.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hamas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une terrible guerre proxy (où deux pouvoirs utilisent une tierce personne) éclata, les États-Unis finançant le Fatah en Cisjordanie à coups de centaines de millions de dollars, tandis que l’Iran envoyait clandestinement de l’argent et des armes au Hamas à Gaza.
Pourtant, Yahya Sinwar va construire l’image d’un Hamas de moins en moins belliqueux frontalement envers Israël, ce qui a pu tromper les services de renseignement.
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 - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).