UDF
\y.de.ɛf\
The verdict
“UDF” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,796) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,796
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Parti politique français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-udf · UDF · French
UDF · rank #34,796 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,796
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tuyauterie
Nearest frequency peer: tuyauterie (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « UDF »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- trombe
trombe
65,209 corpus weight
- tronquée
tronquée
65,208 corpus weight
- tuyauterie
tuyauterie
65,206 corpus weight
- UDF
UDF
65,205 corpus weight
- utiliserai
utiliserai
65,203 corpus weight
- valentina
valentina
65,202 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « UDF » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | UDF |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.de.ɛf\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « UDF »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UDF is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "up", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \y.de.ɛf\. Frequency #34,796 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Parti politique français.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for UDF in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "up", "UE", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is UDF, spelled U-D-F.
Definition
- 1Parti politique français.
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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