hummus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hummus is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈumus]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,957 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pasta de garbanzo con zumo (jugo) de limón, una crema denominada tahina (pasta de semillas de sésamo: ajonjolí) y aceite de oliva. Ingredientes de variantes locales pueden ser ajo y pimentón. La de...".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hummus, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is hummus, spelled H-U-M-M-U-S.