humide

^((h muet))\y.mid\

/^((h muet))\y.mid\/ adj

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The verdict

“humide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,621. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,621
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tient de la nature de l’eau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-humide · humide · French

humide · rank #6,621 · 8 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,621
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH grain

Nearest frequency peer: grain (-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 « humide »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « humide » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

humide vs humides
86% similar
humide vs humilie
71% similar
humide vs humidité
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for humide
PropertyValue
Headwordhumide
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA^((h muet))\y.mid\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,621
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humide »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).humidese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « grain » (#6,620), « intégrité » (#6,622), « garanties » (#6,619). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « humide » est au #6,621. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around humide (IPA ^((h muet))\y.mid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,621 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for humide, with forms such as "hhumide", "hmuide", and "huimde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "humides", "humilie", "humidité", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is humide, spelled H-U-M-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui tient de la nature de l’eau.
  2. 2
    Qui est chargé de quelque substance ou vapeur aqueuse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how humide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’humide élément, L’eau.
  2. Les humides plaines, l’humide empire, La mer.

Synonyms

éveux

This word in other languages

damp(English)húmedo(Español)feucht(Deutsch)húmido(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhumide
  • hmuide
  • huimde
  • humdie
  • humidde
  • humied
  • hummide
  • uhmide

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humide - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

hhumide1hmuide2huimde2humdie2humidde1humied2hummide1uhmide2
Edit distance from "humide"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "humide"?
"humide" is spelled H-U-M-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is ^((h muet))\y.mid\.
What does "humide" mean?
As an adjective, "humide" means: Qui tient de la nature de l’eau.
What words are commonly confused with "humide"?
"humide" is commonly confused with "humides", "humilie", "humidité". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "humide"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "humide" is ^((h muet))\y.mid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "humide" come from?
"humide" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "humide", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

foyers#6,617Munich#6,633organe#6,636pressé#6,643

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

mettait8 variantsports8 variantstimide8 variantstreize8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list