humiliation

\y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\

/\y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“humiliation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,888. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,888
frequency rank, French
1,969
“H” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’humilier, de s’humilier ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-humiliation · humiliation · French

humiliation · rank #10,888 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #10,888
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,969
  • PHOTO-FINISH how

Nearest frequency peer: how (-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 « humiliation »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « humiliation » 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).

humiliation vs humiliations
92% similar

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

Key facts for humiliation
PropertyValue
Headwordhumiliation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#10,888
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humiliation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).humiliationse 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 « how » (#10,887), « identifiés » (#10,889), « horizons » (#10,886). Parmi 1,969 lemmes en « H », « humiliation » est au #10,888. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around humiliation (IPA \y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,888 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for humiliation, with forms such as "hhumiliation", "hmuiliation", and "huimliation". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "humiliations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is humiliation, spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’humilier, de s’humilier ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Choses qui humilient.
  3. 3
    Sentiment de dévalorisation et d’indignité né d’une action humiliante dont on se trouve victime.
  4. 4
    Pratique judiciaire qui consistait à infliger une peine publique à une personne en punition de son crime ou de sa faute, sous forme physique ou verbale.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Leurs yeux noyés, leur démarche incertaine, leurs traits fanés, leur calvitie précoce, révèlent les humiliations de l’âge ; […] ; à l’instar des militaires retraités, ces bourreaux des cœurs qui eurent les faveurs de toutes les dames du Bottin galant, n’ont plus qu’à raconter leurs exploits passés, avec des tarasconnades grasseyantes dans la voix.
  2. […], mais ce fut inutile et il dut se résigner à l’humiliation de cette exhibition publique à ce pilori paroissial.

Synonyms

avilissementdégradationrabaissementdénigrementdévalorisation

This word in other languages

humiliation(English)Erniedrigung(Deutsch)humilhação(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhumiliation
  • hmuiliation
  • huimliation
  • humiilation
  • humilaition
  • humiliaiton
  • humiliatino
  • humiliationn
  • humiliatoin
  • humiliattion
  • humilitaion
  • humilliation
  • humliiation
  • hummiliation
  • uhmiliation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humiliation - 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.

hhumiliation1hmuiliation2huimliation2humiilation2humilaition2humiliaiton2humiliatino2humiliationn1
Edit distance from "humiliation"

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 "humiliation"?
"humiliation" is spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\.
What does "humiliation" mean?
As a noun, "humiliation" means: Action d’humilier, de s’humilier ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "humiliation"?
"humiliation" is commonly confused with "humiliations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "humiliation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "humiliation" is \y.mi.lja.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "humiliation" come from?
"humiliation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

interrompre#10,894intérieures#10,895inversement#10,896libéralisme#10,900

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

identifiés15 variantscontinuant15 variantscombustion15 variantsapprofondir15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list