ubuesque
\y.by.ɛsk\
The verdict
“ubuesque” is uncommon French (frequency #53,046 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,046
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’un comique grotesque et démesuré, poussé jusqu’à l’absurde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ubuesque · ubuesque · French
ubuesque · rank #53,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,046
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH témérité
Nearest frequency peer: témérité (-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 « ubuesque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- twitté
twitté
46,958 corpus weight
- télégraphie
télégraphie
46,957 corpus weight
- témérité
témérité
46,956 corpus weight
- ubuesque
ubuesque
46,955 corpus weight
- ugly
ugly
46,954 corpus weight
- umbrella
umbrella
46,953 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ubuesque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ubuesque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.by.ɛsk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ubuesque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ubuesque is uncommon French at frequency #53,046 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \y.by.ɛsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’un comique grotesque et démesuré, poussé jusqu’à l’absurde.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ubuesque in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ubuesque, spelled U-B-U-E-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1D’un comique grotesque et démesuré, poussé jusqu’à l’absurde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ubuesque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un roi ubuesque avec sa cour et son palais baroque construit en dehors d’Erevan, dans lequel, raconte-t-on, il avait fait venir deux lions qui ont fini par dépérir.
Mais tous font état d’un système d’une complexité inouïe. Dans les faits, sa mise en œuvre se révèle coûteuse, incertaine, voire même ubuesque.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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