humer
^((h aspiré))\y.me\
The verdict
“humer” is uncommon French (frequency #68,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,347
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aspirer doucement un liquide ou un gaz.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humer · humer · French
humer · rank #68,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,347
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huck
Nearest frequency peer: huck (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « humer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hortensia
hortensia
31,658 corpus weight
- Hossegor
Hossegor
31,656 corpus weight
- huck
huck
31,655 corpus weight
- humer
humer
31,654 corpus weight
- hydrographi…
hydrographiques
31,653 corpus weight
- hédonisme
hédonisme
31,652 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « humer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\y.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « humer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
humer is uncommon French at frequency #68,347 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\y.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for humer in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is humer, spelled H-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Aspirer doucement un liquide ou un gaz.
- 2Respirer, sentir, flairer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fatigué du vacarme des réjouissances qui battaient leur plein au château, Sir Trystan Delanyea déambulait sur le chemin de ronde du rempart en humant à pleins poumons l'air frais du dehors.
Humer un bouillon.
This word in other languages
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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