eat humble pie
"eat-humble-pie" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eat humble pie” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eat humble pie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eat humble pie” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
eat humble pie is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for eat humble pie in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was rebracketed as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed. The correct English form is eat humble pie, spelled E-A-T- -H-U-M-B-L-E- -P-I-E.
Definition
- 1To admit one's faults; to make a humiliating apology.
Etymology
The spoken phrase a numble pie (a pie made from the entrails of a deer) was rebracketed as an umble pie, then written as (a) humble pie, after which the figurative meaning developed.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “eat humble pie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-A-T- -H-U-M-B-L-E- -P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.