hummus
French, noun/y.mys/
hummus is spelled H-U-M-M-U-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written French, the 127,906th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hummus is a French masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of houmous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de houmous”.
What does hummus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealternative spelling of houmous
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de houmous.
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.
How do you pronounce hummus?
- /y.mys/
- \y.mys\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is hummus in French?
hummus appears about once in every 15 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).