Uccle
\ykl\
The verdict
“Uccle” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,546
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale, en Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uccle · Uccle · French
Uccle · rank #40,546 · 5 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,546
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH twain
Nearest frequency peer: twain (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Uccle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tréfonds
tréfonds
59,458 corpus weight
- tus
tus
59,457 corpus weight
- twain
twain
59,456 corpus weight
- Uccle
Uccle
59,455 corpus weight
- UICN
UICN
59,453 corpus weight
- urbaniste
urbaniste
59,452 corpus weight
What this shows « Uccle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uccle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ykl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Uccle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Uccle (IPA \ykl\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,546 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale, en Belgique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Uccle, with forms such as "cucle", "uccel", and "ucclle". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "utile", "ulule", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Uccle, spelled U-C-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune de la région de Bruxelles-Capitale, en Belgique.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- cucle
- uccel
- ucclle
- uclce
- ucle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Uccle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).