Hampton
The verdict
“Hampton” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,357. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,357
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Cheshire West and Chester.
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 | Hampton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hampton” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Hampton, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,357 among 109,908 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Hampton, with forms such as "ahmpton", "hammpton", and "hampotn". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "harpon", "Hamon", "hameçon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Hampton, spelled H-A-M-P-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Paroisse civile d’Angleterre située dans le district de Cheshire West and Chester.
- 2Quartier de Londres, en Angleterre, dans le district de Richmond upon Thames.
- 3Les Hamptons, une région située au nord-est de l'île de Long Island dans l'État de New York (États-Unis)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmpton
- hammpton
- hampotn
- hamppton
- hamptno
- hamptonn
- hamptton
- hamtpon
- hapmton
- hhampton
- hmapton
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Hampton - 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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Using “Hampton”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-A-M-P-T-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “harpon” - see the side-by-side comparison. Hampton vs harpon
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.