humble

/^((h muet))\œ̃bl\/ adj

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.

Key facts for humble
PropertyValue
Headwordhumble
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA^((h muet))\œ̃bl\
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,973
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of humble in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Qui manifeste de l’humilité, une extrême modestie, qui s'abaisse volontairement.
  2. 2
    Qui porte trop loin la déférence et le respect.
  3. 3
    Qui marque du respect et de la déférence, en parlant des choses.
  4. 4
    Qui est modeste.
  5. 5
    Qui a peu d’élévation, peu d’apparence, peu d’éclat, qui est sans prétention.
  6. 6
    Qui est médiocre, peu relevé.
  7. 7
    Qui 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"

hhumble7hmuble6hubmle6humbble7humbel6humblle7humlbe6hummble7
Misspelling Variants of "humble"

Frequency rank: #7,973 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "humble"?
"humble" is spelled H-U-M-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\œ̃bl\.
What does "humble" mean?
As an adj, "humble" means: Qui manifeste de l’humilité, une extrême modestie, qui s'abaisse volontairement.
What words are commonly confused with "humble"?
"humble" is commonly confused with "hume", "hurle", "humide". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "humble"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "humble" is ^((h muet))\œ̃bl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "humble" come from?
"humble" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.