humilité
French, noun/y.mi.li.te/
humilité is spelled H-U-M-I-L-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written French, the 10,655th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Humilité is a French feminine noun meaning “humility” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Vertu qui nous donne le sentiment de notre faiblesse, qui réprime en nous les mouvements de l’orgueil”.
What does humilité mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininehumility
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Vertu qui nous donne le sentiment de notre faiblesse, qui réprime en nous les mouvements de l’orgueil. 2. Déférence, soumission, abaissement. 3. Qualité de ce qui est humble. 4. Sentiment personnel de peu d’importance ; modestie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of humilité
- humilités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce humilité?
- /y.mi.li.te/
- \y.mi.li.te\
- [y.mi.li.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to humilité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is humilité in French?
humilité appears 5.4 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).