hamster
^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“hamster” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,994. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,994
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit rongeur nocturne de silhouette massive et d’aspect robuste, pourvus d’abajoues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamster · hamster · French
hamster · rank #24,994 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,994
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hait
Nearest frequency peer: hait (-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 « hamster »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- géniales
géniales
75,010 corpus weight
- géographe
géographe
75,009 corpus weight
- hait
hait
75,008 corpus weight
- hamster
hamster
75,007 corpus weight
- hawks
hawks
75,006 corpus weight
- haïtienne
haïtienne
75,005 corpus weight
What this shows « hamster » 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 | hamster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,994 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « hamster »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around hamster (IPA ^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,994 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for hamster, with forms such as "ahmster", "hammster", and "hamsetr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "hâter", "hanter", "hausser", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is hamster, spelled H-A-M-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Petit rongeur nocturne de silhouette massive et d’aspect robuste, pourvus d’abajoues.
- 2Personnification des pensées qui ne cessent de « tourner » dans la tête, comme le hamster en cage fait tourner sa roue sans fin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hamster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le hamster vit sous terre, ramasse des graines, et fait d’énormes magasins.
Une variante de la technique consiste à microinjecter le noyau du spermatozoïde directement dans l’ovocyte de hamster afin de vérifier si la décondensation a lieu directement après les traitements de séparation.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ahmster
- hammster
- hamsetr
- hamsster
- hamsterr
- hamstre
- hamstter
- hamtser
- hasmter
- hhamster
- hmaster
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hamster - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "hamster", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).