ues

noun

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The verdict

“ues” is uncommon French (frequency #57,670 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,670
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Œuvre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ues · ues · French

ues · rank #57,670 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,670
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH têtard

Nearest frequency peer: têtard (-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 « ues »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ues » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for ues
PropertyValue
Headwordues
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#57,670
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « ues » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).uestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « têtard » (#57,669), « téter » (#57,668), « usufruitier » (#57,672). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « ues » est au #57,670. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ues is uncommon French at frequency #57,670 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ues, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ues, spelled U-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Œuvre.
  2. 2
    Besoin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ues appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Cel fist Prianz a son ues faire
  2. Molt t’iert grant ues de reposer

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ues"?
"ues" is spelled U-E-S.
What does "ues" mean?
As a noun, "ues" means: Œuvre.
What language does "ues" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ues", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

vez#57,676VGA#57,677VHF#57,678zus#57,697

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list