humanities
/hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/
"humanities" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humanities” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,620. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,620
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of humanity
Corpus desk
Index EN-humanities · humanities · English
humanities · rank #12,620 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,620
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humane
Nearest frequency peer: humane (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “humanities”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- hath
hath
87,384 corpus weight
- heavyweight
heavyweight
87,383 corpus weight
- humane
humane
87,382 corpus weight
- humanities
humanities
87,381 corpus weight
- inflicted
inflicted
87,380 corpus weight
- Jedi
Jedi
87,378 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “humanities” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humanities |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “humanities” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around humanities (IPA /hjuˈmæn.ɪ.tiz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,620 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of humanity".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for humanities, with forms such as "hhumanities", "hmuanities", and "huamnities". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is humanities, spelled H-U-M-A-N-I-T-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of humanity
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumanities
- hmuanities
- huamnities
- humainties
- humaniites
- humaniteis
- humanitiess
- humanitise
- humanitties
- humannities
- humantiies
- hummanities
- humnaities
- uhmanities
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humanities - 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "humanities", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- 14 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #12,620 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "H" letter cohort. H–Z browse
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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.