humus
\y.mys\
The verdict
“humus” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,887
- frequency rank, French
- 1,969
- “H” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre végétale.
Corpus desk
Index FR-humus · humus · French
humus · rank #36,887 · 7 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,887
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,969
- PHOTO-FINISH Huang
Nearest frequency peer: Huang (-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 « humus »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- holstein
holstein
63,117 corpus weight
- honteusement
honteusement
63,116 corpus weight
- Huang
Huang
63,115 corpus weight
- humus
humus
63,114 corpus weight
- hémorragique
hémorragique
63,112 corpus weight
- Hérodote
Hérodote
63,111 corpus weight
What this shows « humus » 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 | humus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.mys\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #36,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « humus »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around humus (IPA \y.mys\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,887 among 1,969 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for humus, with forms such as "hhumus", "hmuus", and "hummus". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "huns", "hutu", "hum", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is humus, spelled H-U-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1Terre végétale.
- 2Couche supérieure du sol issue de la décomposition totale de la partie brute de la fraction organique du sol principalement par l’action combinée des animaux, des bactéries et des champignons du sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les jours filent clairs parmi le friselis des feuilles, le froufroutement des brises, les odeurs âpres des humus, le parfum des sèves, entouré d’oiseaux et d’abeilles.
Au fond du val, des champs de blé, des carrés de betteraves, des pâturages d’herbe drue avaient poussé avec cette opulence lourde des végétations nourries par l’humus noir des terrains d’alluvion.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hhumus
- hmuus
- hummus
- humsu
- humuss
- huums
- uhmus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of humus - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).