Ushant
/ˈʌʃənt/
"ushant" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Ushant” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An island located in the department of Finistère, Brittany, France, at the southwestern end of the English Channel, marking the northwesternmost point of metropolitan France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ushant · Ushant · English
Ushant · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | Ushant |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈʌʃənt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Ushant” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Ushant is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈʌʃənt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An island located in the department of Finistère, Brittany, France, at the southwestern end of the English Channel, marking the northwesternmost point of metropolitan France.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Ushant, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is Ushant, spelled U-S-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1An island located in the department of Finistère, Brittany, France, at the southwestern end of the English Channel, marking the northwesternmost point of metropolitan France.
This word in other languages
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.