humble
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,973
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
humble is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui manifeste de l’humilité, une extrême modestie, qui s'abaisse volontairement. Pronounced ^((h muet))\œ̃bl\. It ranks #7,973 in French word frequency. Often confused with hume and hurle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œ̃bl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for humble is 6 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as ^((h muet))\œ̃bl\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,973 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for humble, with forms such as "hhumble", "hmuble", and "hubmle". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "hume", "hurle", "humide", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French form is humble, spelled H-U-M-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui manifeste de l’humilité, une extrême modestie, qui s'abaisse volontairement.
- 2Qui porte trop loin la déférence et le respect.
- 3Qui marque du respect et de la déférence, en parlant des choses.
- 4Qui est modeste.
- 5Qui a peu d’élévation, peu d’apparence, peu d’éclat, qui est sans prétention.
- 6Qui est médiocre, peu relevé.
- 7Qui est d’une condition sociale très modeste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hhumble,hmuble,hubmle,humbble,humbel,humblle,humlbe,hummble,uhmble
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for humble
Misspelling Variants of "humble"
Frequency rank: #7,973 in French
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