hamsters
^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“hamsters” is uncommon French (frequency #58,000 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,000
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de hamster.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hamsters · hamsters · French
hamsters · rank #58,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,000
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hazan
Nearest frequency peer: hazan (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « hamsters »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- haineuses
haineuses
42,005 corpus weight
- halieutiques
halieutiques
42,004 corpus weight
- hamsters
hamsters
42,001 corpus weight
- hazan
hazan
42,000 corpus weight
- hel
hel
41,999 corpus weight
- Helvètes
Helvètes
41,998 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « hamsters » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hamsters |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « hamsters » en français
Rare enough to double-check
hamsters is uncommon French at frequency #58,000 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\am.stɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de hamster.".
hamsters has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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. The correct French form is hamsters, spelled H-A-M-S-T-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de hamster.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hamsters appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Très actifs et explorateurs, les hamsters demandent des soins réguliers et adaptés.
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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