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
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onomatopée issue de la délectation de boire ou de manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-hummm · hummm · French
hummm · rank #49,134 · 4 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,134
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH hypothéquer
Nearest frequency peer: hypothéquer (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « hummm »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- highland
highland
50,872 corpus weight
- hollywoodie…
hollywoodiens
50,870 corpus weight
- honorableme…
honorablement
50,869 corpus weight
- hummm
hummm
50,867 corpus weight
- hypothéquer
hypothéquer
50,866 corpus weight
- hématomes
hématomes
50,865 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « hummm » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « hummm »
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 1,969 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hummm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous jouions même — ce qui est peu correct et passerait en Angleterre pour monstrueux — à faire « hummm, hummm » en savourant les bouchées arrosées aussitôt des bourgognes les plus fruités et capiteux.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).