hameau
^((h aspiré))\a.mo\
The verdict
“hameau” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,184. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,184
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En milieu rural, groupe d’habitations à l’écart d’une commune, à laquelle il est rattaché administrativement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hameau · hameau · French
hameau · rank #13,184 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,184
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH halle
Nearest frequency peer: halle (-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 « hameau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- habituelles
habituelles
86,820 corpus weight
- haineux
haineux
86,819 corpus weight
- halle
halle
86,818 corpus weight
- hameau
hameau
86,817 corpus weight
- hospitalisa…
hospitalisation
86,816 corpus weight
- idéaux
idéaux
86,815 corpus weight
What this shows « hameau » 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 | hameau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\a.mo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hameau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around hameau (IPA ^((h aspiré))\a.mo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,184 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "En milieu rural, groupe d’habitations à l’écart d’une commune, à laquelle il est rattaché administrativement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for hameau, with forms such as "ahmeau", "haemau", and "hamaeu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Hamel", "hamza", "hammam", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 hameau, spelled H-A-M-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1En milieu rural, groupe d’habitations à l’écart d’une commune, à laquelle il est rattaché administrativement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hameau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On déserte surtout les endroits inaccessibles […] Il faut donc s’attacher à les rendre d’un abord plus facile en multipliant partout, entre les villages et les hameaux, les petites routes.
Au terme d’un ancien chemin usé jusqu’à l’enrochement […] le hameau des Vieux Marais dérobe sa dizaine de masures à ras du sol, à l’orée de la Fagne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmeau
- haemau
- hamaeu
- hameua
- hammeau
- hhameau
- hmaeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hameau - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).