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Houthi

/ˈhuːθi/noun

Houthi is spelled H-O-U-T-H-I: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Houthi means “A member of the Ansar Allah armed revolutionary group in Yemen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Houthi is Houthis.

How many letters and syllables are in Houthi?

Letters6: H-O-U-T-H-I
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 43,187th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Houthi?

Houthi appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 43,187th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Houthi?

  • /ˈhuːθi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of Houthi

  • Houthis plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Houthi mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of the Ansar Allah armed revolutionary group in Yemen.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Houthi in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
FrenchHouthi
GermanHuthi
Spanishhutí, huzí, hucí

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Houthi come from?

From Arabic الْحُوثِيّ (al-ḥūṯiyy). Named after Yemeni politician and rebel Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi. ultimately from the village of حُوث (ḥūṯ) in western central Yemen.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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