humidor
/ˈhjumɪdɔɹ/noun
humidor is a noun meaning “A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-U-M-I-D-O-R and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of humidor is humidors.
What does humidor mean?
noun
- 1
A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce humidor?
- US /ˈhjumɪdɔɹ/
Humidor has 3 syllables (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).
Forms of humidor
- humidors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is humidor?
Humidor appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).
Humidor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense container:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Humidor |
| Spanish | humidificador |
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 humidor come from?
From humid, modeled after cuspidor (“spittoon”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).