hummm
The verdict
“hummm” sits in 10 confusable pairs (corpus #49,134) as an onomatopoeia. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,134
- frequency rank, French
- 109,908
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Onomatopée issue de la délectation de boire ou de manger.
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 | hummm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,134 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hummm” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hummm is neighbouring look-alikes ("humus", "hum", …), not just typos; it is anonomatopoeia. Frequency #49,134 among 109,908 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Onomatopée issue de la délectation de boire ou de manger.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for hummm, with forms such as "hhummm", "hmumm", and "humm". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "humus", "hum", "hmm", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is hummm, spelled H-U-M-M-M.
Definition
- 1Onomatopée issue de la délectation de boire ou de manger.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhummm
- hmumm
- humm
- uhmmm
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of hummm - 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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Using “hummm”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-U-M-M-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “humus” - see the side-by-side comparison. hummm vs humus
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Words at a similar French frequency
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.