humérus
\y.me.ʁys\
The verdict
“humérus” is uncommon French (frequency #54,631 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,631
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Os du bras, depuis l’épaule jusqu’au coude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humerus · humérus · French
humérus · rank #54,631 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,631
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hummer
Nearest frequency peer: hummer (-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 « humérus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Held
Held
45,373 corpus weight
- hummer
hummer
45,371 corpus weight
- humérus
humérus
45,370 corpus weight
- hyperbolique
hyperbolique
45,369 corpus weight
- hypotension
hypotension
45,368 corpus weight
- hébergeant
hébergeant
45,367 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « humérus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humérus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.me.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « humérus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
humérus is uncommon French at frequency #54,631 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.me.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Os du bras, depuis l’épaule jusqu’au coude.".
humérus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is humérus, spelled H-U-M-É-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Os du bras, depuis l’épaule jusqu’au coude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humérus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voyons ça ! dit l’interne. Bon ! une fracture du bras droit […] on le raccommodera tantôt, cet humérus... Pour le moment, nous allons le suspendre à une écharpe, tout bonnement…
Pièce de l’avant, la raquette a comme base osseuse les carpes, le radius, le cubitus, l’humérus, le scapulum.
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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