humor

//u.ˈmoɾ// noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,815

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

humor is aPortuguesenoun. It means: forma de entretenimento e de comunicação humana Pronounced /u.ˈmoɾ/. It ranks #1,815 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with hum and Hugo.

Key facts for humor
PropertyValue
Headwordhumor
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/u.ˈmoɾ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,815
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of humor in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for humor is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ˈmoɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,815 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for humor, with forms such as "hhumor", "hmuor", and "hummor". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "hum", "Hugo", "homo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is humor, spelled H-U-M-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    forma de entretenimento e de comunicação humana
  2. 2
    qualidade cômica, incongruente ou absurda de uma situação, que a torna engraçada
  3. 3
    a faculdade de perceber o que é cômico
  4. 4
    disposição mental ou temperamento

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: hhumor,hmuor,hummor,humorr,humro,huomr,uhmor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for humor

Misspelling Variants of "humor"

hhumor6hmuor5hummor6humorr6humro5huomr5uhmor5
Misspelling Variants of "humor"

Frequency rank: #1,815 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "humor"?
"humor" is spelled H-U-M-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /u.ˈmoɾ/.
What does "humor" mean?
As a noun, "humor" means: forma de entretenimento e de comunicação humana
What words are commonly confused with "humor"?
"humor" is commonly confused with "hum", "Hugo", "homo". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "humor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "humor" is /u.ˈmoɾ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "humor" come from?
"humor" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter H in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.