humour
\y.muʁ\
The verdict
“humour” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,179
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme d’ironie à la fois plaisante et sérieuse, sentimentale et satirique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humour · humour · French
humour · rank #2,179 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,179
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH heureuse
Nearest frequency peer: heureuse (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « humour »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- fruits
fruits
97,825 corpus weight
- haine
haine
97,824 corpus weight
- heureuse
heureuse
97,823 corpus weight
- humour
humour
97,822 corpus weight
- informatique
informatique
97,821 corpus weight
- lesquelles
lesquelles
97,819 corpus weight
What this shows « humour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | humour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.muʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humour »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around humour (IPA \y.muʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,179 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forme d’ironie à la fois plaisante et sérieuse, sentimentale et satirique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for humour, with forms such as "hhumour", "hmuour", and "hummour". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "humus", "hour", "humeur", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is humour, spelled H-U-M-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Forme d’ironie à la fois plaisante et sérieuse, sentimentale et satirique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et c'est pour lui […] une chronique qui sinue à travers cent anecdotes tissée de bons mots, de plaisanteries, d'humour wallon.
Les obsèques de Jean-Jacques Sempé, dessinateur d’humour pessacais décédé à 89 ans, ont eu lieu à l’église Saint-Germain-des-Prés à Paris, hier.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumour
- hmuour
- hummour
- humoru
- humourr
- humuor
- huomur
- uhmour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humour - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).