hummus

/[ˈumus]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#54,957

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

hummus is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈumus].

Key facts for hummus
PropertyValue
Headwordhummus
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈumus]
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,957
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of hummus in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for hummus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, 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...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for hummus in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is hummus, spelled H-U-M-M-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 denominación completa en árabe es حُمُّص بطحينة (ḥummuṣ bi ṭaḥīna): garbanzos y pasta de sésamo, o musabbaha.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #54,957 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hummus"?
"hummus" is spelled H-U-M-M-U-S. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈumus].
What does "hummus" mean?
As a noun, "hummus" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "hummus"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "hummus" is [ˈumus]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "hummus" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.