Hamilton
\a.mil.tɔn\
The verdict
“Hamilton” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,970. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,970
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille écossais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamilton · Hamilton · French
Hamilton · rank #7,970 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,970
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH habiter
Nearest frequency peer: habiter (-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 « Hamilton »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- grasse
grasse
92,034 corpus weight
- grenade
grenade
92,033 corpus weight
- habiter
habiter
92,032 corpus weight
- Hamilton
Hamilton
92,031 corpus weight
- homosexuali…
homosexualité
92,030 corpus weight
- humanitaire
humanitaire
92,029 corpus weight
What this shows « Hamilton » 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 | Hamilton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.mil.tɔn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Hamilton »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Hamilton (IPA \a.mil.tɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,970 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille écossais.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hamilton, with forms such as "ahmilton", "haimlton", and "hamillton". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Hilton", "Hampton", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Hamilton, spelled H-A-M-I-L-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille écossais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Hamilton appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si l’Espagnol en tire profit en s’élançant en tête, le Mexicain est immédiatement débordé par l’Alpine de Fernando Alonso et la Mercedes de Lewis Hamilton.
Aux États-Unis, le baudet du Poitou a trouvé une grande protectrice en la personne d’une certaine Debbie Hamilton, qui l’a introduit dans les années 1980.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmilton
- haimlton
- hamillton
- hamilotn
- hamiltno
- hamiltonn
- hamiltton
- hamitlon
- hamliton
- hammilton
- hhamilton
- hmailton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hamilton - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).