huge
/hjuːd͡ʒ/adjective
huge is spelled H-U-G-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 115 times per million words in written English, the 932nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, huge means “Very large” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in huge?
| Letters | 4: H-U-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 115 times per million words; the 932nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is huge?
Huge appears 115 times per million words in written English, the 932nd 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 huge?
- UK /hjuːd͡ʒ/
- UK [ç(j)u̟ːd͡ʒ]
- British /hjʉwd͡ʒ/
Huge has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-huge.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with huge?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as huge (/udʒ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: eugh.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of huge
- huger comparative
- more huge comparative
- hugest superlative
- most huge superlative
- yuge
- yooge
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does huge mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Very large.
- 2
informalVery strong, powerful, or dedicated.
Both of my parents are huge supporters of animal rights.
- 3
informalVery interesting, significant, or popular.
The band's next album is going to be huge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Huge in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense very large:
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 huge come from?
From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).