-ume
\u.me\
The verdict
“-ume” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suffixe formant des mots ,en général à partir d’adjectif, avec une notion d’ensemble ou une notion dépréciative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ume · -ume · French
-ume · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \u.me\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « -ume » en français
Rare enough to double-check
-ume is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \u.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Suffixe formant des mots ,en général à partir d’adjectif, avec une notion d’ensemble ou une notion dépréciative.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for -ume, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is -ume, spelled --U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Suffixe formant des mots ,en général à partir d’adjectif, avec une notion d’ensemble ou une notion dépréciative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how -ume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
vecchio (« vieux ») ; vecchiume (« vieillerie »).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.