humoured
"humoured" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humoured” is uncommon English (frequency #79,606 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,606
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humoured · humoured · English
humoured · rank #79,606 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,606
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH humbleness
Nearest frequency peer: humbleness (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “humoured”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- housecleani…
housecleaning
20,400 corpus weight
- Howley
Howley
20,398 corpus weight
- humbleness
humbleness
20,396 corpus weight
- humoured
humoured
20,395 corpus weight
- hungrily
hungrily
20,393 corpus weight
- hypervisor
hypervisor
20,391 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humoured” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humoured |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humoured” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humoured is uncommon English at frequency #79,606 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
humoured has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is humoured, spelled H-U-M-O-U-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having a disposition or mood of a specified kind.
- 2Spoilt. indulged.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how humoured appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Besides these two fair Damsels, I found a little humoured Brat here who I beleive^([sic]) is some relation to them […].
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
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).