humilité
\y.mi.li.te\
The verdict
“humilité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,718. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,718
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertu qui nous donne le sentiment de notre faiblesse, qui réprime en nous les mouvements de l’orgueil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humilite · humilité · French
humilité · rank #10,718 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,718
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH homogène
Nearest frequency peer: homogène (-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 « humilité »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- gâcher
gâcher
89,287 corpus weight
- Harris
Harris
89,285 corpus weight
- homogène
homogène
89,284 corpus weight
- humilité
humilité
89,283 corpus weight
- imagines
imagines
89,281 corpus weight
- incroyablem…
incroyablement
89,280 corpus weight
What this shows « humilité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humilité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.mi.li.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humilité »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around humilité (IPA \y.mi.li.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,718 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 humilité, with forms such as "hhumilité", "hmuilité", and "huimlité". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "humilie", "humanité", "humidité", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is humilité, spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Vertu qui nous donne le sentiment de notre faiblesse, qui réprime en nous les mouvements de l’orgueil.
- 2Déférence, soumission, abaissement.
- 3Qualité de ce qui est humble.
- 4Sentiment personnel de peu d’importance ; modestie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humilité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; cette précaution prise, il revint à sa place, sans humilité comme sans orgueil, convaincu que, perdît-il le prix, il l’avait disputé assez longtemps pour n’avoir pas de honte à le voir passer aux mains d’un autre.
Un visage vêtu d’humilité, dit Dante. Mais l’humilité, qui est la position que tout homme réfléchi adopte en présence de sa vie, est plus qu’un vêtement.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumilité
- hmuilité
- huimlité
- humiilté
- humilite
- humilitté
- humiliét
- humillité
- humiltié
- humliité
- hummilité
- uhmilité
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humilité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).