U9
\y.ɔ̃z\
The verdict
“U9” is uncommon French (frequency #89,276 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,276
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catégorie sportive correspondant aux personnes de moins de 9 ans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-u9 · U9 · French
U9 · rank #89,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,276
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH télémètre
Nearest frequency peer: télémètre (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « U9 »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tumoral
tumoral
10,729 corpus weight
- tuned
tuned
10,728 corpus weight
- télémètre
télémètre
10,726 corpus weight
- U9
U9
10,725 corpus weight
- ultralibéra…
ultralibéralisme
10,723 corpus weight
- universalis…
universalistes
10,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « U9 » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | U9 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ɔ̃z\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #89,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « U9 » en français
Rare enough to double-check
U9 is uncommon French at frequency #89,276 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.ɔ̃z\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
U9 doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is U9, spelled U-9.
Definition
- 1Catégorie sportive correspondant aux personnes de moins de 9 ans.
- 2Personne jouant dans cette catégorie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how U9 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En U9 chacun doit se positionner sur un poste.
Les catégories U7 et U9 de l’ASMC ont participé ce samedi 10 juin à la journée nationale des débutants (JND) qui était organisée par le District de football de la Corrèze à Ussac.
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.