Ubaye
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#68,716
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Ubaye is aFrenchname. It means: Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence intégrée dans la commune de Le Lauzet-Ubaye. Pronounced \y.bɑj\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ubaye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \y.bɑj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Ubaye is 5 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.bɑj\. Corpus data places it at rank #68,716 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Ubaye in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 French form is Ubaye, spelled U-B-A-Y-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Village et ancienne commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence intégrée dans la commune de Le Lauzet-Ubaye.
- 2Rivière torrentielle française qui coule dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. C’est un affluent de la Durance en rive gauche, donc un sous-affluent du Rhône.
- 3Vallée de l’Ubaye.
Frequency rank: #68,716 in French
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