houmous
French, noun/u.mus/
houmous is spelled H-O-U-M-O-U-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,078th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Houmous is a French masculine noun meaning “hummus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Préparation culinaire du Moyen-Orient, composée notamment de purée de pois chiches et de tahini (aussi appelé…”.
What does houmous mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehummus
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Préparation culinaire du Moyen-Orient, composée notamment de purée de pois chiches et de tahini (aussi appelé « tahina »).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of houmous
- hummus alternative
- hoummous alternative
- ^((h aspiré))\u.mus\
- ^((h muet))\u.mus\
- houmos
- oumos
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce houmous?
- /u.mus/
- ^((h muet))\u.mus\
- \u.mus\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to houmous
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is houmous in French?
houmous appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).