humidifier
\y.mi.di.fje\
The verdict
“humidifier” is uncommon French (frequency #91,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,791
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre humide, ou plus humide.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humidifier · humidifier · French
humidifier · rank #91,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,791
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH huitaine
Nearest frequency peer: huitaine (-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 « humidifier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- hobo
hobo
8,215 corpus weight
- huitaine
huitaine
8,211 corpus weight
- humidifier
humidifier
8,210 corpus weight
- hyperboliqu…
hyperboliques
8,208 corpus weight
- hypothyroïd…
hypothyroïdie
8,207 corpus weight
- hémostase
hémostase
8,206 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « humidifier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humidifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \y.mi.di.fje\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #91,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « humidifier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
humidifier is uncommon French at frequency #91,791 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \y.mi.di.fje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rendre humide, ou plus humide.".
No misspelling variants are generated for humidifier in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is humidifier, spelled H-U-M-I-D-I-F-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre humide, ou plus humide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humidifier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je pris l'habitude, à l'imitation des goumiers et des bellahs, d'aller pisser accroupi, à flanc de dune, pour parer au risque de m’humidifier le saroual par vent tourbillonnant et parce qu'en terre d'Islam, ce besoin est à satisfaire discrètement.
En glissant vers le sud, ces vents se tropicalisent et s’humidifient sur la mer de Chine méridionale entraînant de fortes pluies sur les côtes est et nord de l’ensemble régional.
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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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