humidity
/hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/
"humidity" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humidity” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,188. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,188
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dampness, especially that of the air.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humidity · humidity · English
humidity · rank #9,188 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,188
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH guarantees
Nearest frequency peer: guarantees (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “humidity”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- gateway
gateway
90,816 corpus weight
- ge
ge
90,815 corpus weight
- guarantees
guarantees
90,814 corpus weight
- humidity
humidity
90,813 corpus weight
- humour
humour
90,812 corpus weight
- imagery
imagery
90,811 corpus weight
What this shows “humidity” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humidity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “humidity”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around humidity (IPA /hjuːˈmɪd.ə.ti/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,188 among 2,646 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for humidity, with forms such as "hhumidity", "hmuidity", and "huimdity". 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. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "humility", "humanity", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English humidite, borrowed from Old French humidité, from Medieval Latin hūmiditās, from Latin ūmidus (“damp, moist, wet”). By surface analysis, humid + -ity. The correct English form is humidity, spelled H-U-M-I-D-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Dampness, especially that of the air.
- 2The amount of water vapour in the air.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humidity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The high humidity made the air feel sticky and hot.
Plants in the greenhouse thrive in constant humidity.
Etymology
From Middle English humidite, borrowed from Old French humidité, from Medieval Latin hūmiditās, from Latin ūmidus (“damp, moist, wet”). By surface analysis, humid + -ity.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumidity
- hmuidity
- huimdity
- humdiity
- humiddity
- humiditty
- humidityy
- humidiyt
- humidtiy
- humiidty
- hummidity
- uhmidity
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humidity - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "humidity", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).