humaniste
\y.ma.nist\
The verdict
“humaniste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,591. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,591
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne, notamment à la Renaissance, qui a foi en l’humain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humaniste · humaniste · French
humaniste · rank #12,591 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,591
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH imagerie
Nearest frequency peer: imagerie (+1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « humaniste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gratter
gratter
87,414 corpus weight
- griffes
griffes
87,413 corpus weight
- has
has
87,412 corpus weight
- humaniste
humaniste
87,410 corpus weight
- imagerie
imagerie
87,409 corpus weight
- infections
infections
87,407 corpus weight
What this shows « humaniste » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humaniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ma.nist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #12,591 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humaniste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around humaniste (IPA \y.ma.nist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,591 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for humaniste, with forms such as "hhumaniste", "hmuaniste", and "huamniste". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "humanité", "humoriste", "humanités", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is humaniste, spelled H-U-M-A-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne, notamment à la Renaissance, qui a foi en l’humain.
- 2Personne qui a une connaissance approfondie de la langue et de la littérature grecque et romaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humaniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Humaniste, vous mettez l’homme au centre du monde, avec sa sagesse naturelle, son instinct du bonheur terrestre, son salutaire égoïsme ; chrétien, vous devez y mettre le Christ, c’est-à-dire la déraison de la Croix, le goût de la souffrance, la destruction du moi par la soif maladive de l’absolu et de l’éternel.
« Il y a un but, monsieur, il y a un but… il y a les hommes. » C’est juste : j’oubliais qu’il est humaniste. […] « Il y a les hommes… » il vient de se peindre tout entier, ce tendre. […] J’ai fréquenté autrefois des humanistes parisiens, cent fois je les ai entendus dire « il y a les hommes », et c’était autre chose! Virgan était inégalable. Il ôtait ses…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumaniste
- hmuaniste
- huamniste
- humainste
- humaniset
- humanisste
- humanistte
- humanitse
- humanniste
- humansite
- hummaniste
- humnaiste
- uhmaniste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humaniste - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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