Hummel
\ˈhʊml̩\
The verdict
“Hummel” is uncommon French (frequency #55,346 among 1,969 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,346
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bourdon (insecte).
Corpus desk
Index FR-hummel · Hummel · French
Hummel · rank #55,346 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,346
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH honorées
Nearest frequency peer: honorées (-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 « Hummel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- honorées
honorées
44,656 corpus weight
- Hummel
Hummel
44,655 corpus weight
- hurlaient
hurlaient
44,654 corpus weight
- hygiéniste
hygiéniste
44,653 corpus weight
- hésiteront
hésiteront
44,652 corpus weight
- hétérosexua…
hétérosexualité
44,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Hummel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hummel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈhʊml̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,346 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Hummel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Hummel is uncommon French at frequency #55,346 among 1,969 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈhʊml̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bourdon (insecte).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Hummel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Hummel, spelled H-U-M-M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Bourdon (insecte).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Hummel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Hummel flog von Blume zu Blume.
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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