hampe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#46,204
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
hampe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Long manche ou support, généralement en bois, d’un pinceau, d’une arme d’hast, d’une pertuisane, d’un épieu, d’un écouvillon ou d’un refouloir. Pronounced ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃p\. Often confused with hap and home.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hampe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃p\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #46,204 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for hampe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h aspiré))\ɑ̃p\. Corpus data places it at rank #46,204 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for hampe, with forms such as "ahmpe", "hamep", and "hammpe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hap", "home", "have", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is hampe, spelled H-A-M-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Long manche ou support, généralement en bois, d’un pinceau, d’une arme d’hast, d’une pertuisane, d’un épieu, d’un écouvillon ou d’un refouloir.
- 2Long manche ou support, généralement en bois, d’un drapeau ou d’un pavillon.
- 3Mât servant à porter une torpille sous l’eau.
- 4Tige herbacée sans feuilles ni rameaux, et destinée seulement à porter la fleur et le fruit.
- 5Trait vertical qui sert à former certaines lettres et qui dépassent le calibre.
- 6Trait vertical partant de la tête d’une note de musique, parfois muni de crochet(s) (pour déterminer les valeurs de croche ou plus petites).
- 7Partie nue du calamus d’une plume, qui ne porte pas de barbes et qui est implantée dans la peau.
- 8Pénis.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ahmpe,hamep,hammpe,hamppe,hapme,hhampe,hmape
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for hampe
Misspelling Variants of "hampe"
Frequency rank: #46,204 in French
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