humidité

\y.mi.di.te\

/\y.mi.di.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“humidité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,332
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est humide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-humidite · humidité · French

humidité · rank #7,332 · 12 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,332
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH hubert

Nearest frequency peer: hubert (-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 « humidité »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « humidité » 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).

humidité vs humilie
63% similar
humidité vs humilité
88% similar
humidité vs humiliée
63% similar

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

Key facts for humidité
PropertyValue
Headwordhumidité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.mi.di.te\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,332
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humidité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).humiditése place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « hubert » (#7,331), « implantation » (#7,333), « hard » (#7,330). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « humidité » est au #7,332. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around humidité (IPA \y.mi.di.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,332 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for humidité, with forms such as "hhumidité", "hmuidité", and "huimdité". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "humilie", "humilité", "humiliée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is humidité, spelled H-U-M-I-D-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est humide.
  2. 2
    Eau atmosphérique.
  3. 3
    Trace d’eau.
  4. 4
    Lieu humide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Le soir était venu. Nicole frotta plusieurs allumettes sur le plancher ; mais l’humidité s'opposait à leur inflammation, […].
  2. Christophe Michalak — encore un pâtissier canon ! — conseille de saupoudrer le tiramisu de sucre glace avant de le recouvrir de cacao ; la couche de sucre va absorber l’humidité de la crème, laissant le cacao impec…

This word in other languages

humidity(English)humedad(Español)Feuchte(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhumidité
  • hmuidité
  • huimdité
  • humdiité
  • humiddité
  • humidite
  • humiditté
  • humidiét
  • humidtié
  • humiidté
  • hummidité
  • uhmidité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humidité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

hhumidité1hmuidité2huimdité2humdiité2humiddité1humidite1humiditté1humidiét2
Edit distance from "humidité"

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 "humidité"?
"humidité" is spelled H-U-M-I-D-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \y.mi.di.te\.
What does "humidité" mean?
As a noun, "humidité" means: Qualité de ce qui est humide.
What words are commonly confused with "humidité"?
"humidité" is commonly confused with "humilie", "humilité", "humiliée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "humidité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "humidité" is \y.mi.di.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "humidité" come from?
"humidité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Marocain#7,340missiles#7,343oublions#7,350partagée#7,351

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

encourage12 variantscomplice12 variantstrouvant12 variantsambitieux12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list