UFC
\y.ɛf.se\
The verdict
“UFC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,706) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,706
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lorsque l'on dénombre des bactéries dans une culture microbienne, c'est le nombre de bactéries viables apte à se multiplier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ufc · UFC · French
UFC · rank #19,706 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,706
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tribut
Nearest frequency peer: tribut (-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 « UFC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tragiques
tragiques
80,298 corpus weight
- transmissio…
transmissions
80,297 corpus weight
- tribut
tribut
80,296 corpus weight
- UFC
UFC
80,295 corpus weight
- valais
valais
80,294 corpus weight
- vendanges
vendanges
80,293 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « UFC » 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 | UFC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ɛf.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,706 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « UFC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for UFC is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "up", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \y.ɛf.se\. Frequency #19,706 among 456 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for UFC, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "up", "UK", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is UFC, spelled U-F-C.
Definition
- 1Lorsque l'on dénombre des bactéries dans une culture microbienne, c'est le nombre de bactéries viables apte à se multiplier.
- 2Association française ayant pour but d'informer et de défendre les consommateurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how UFC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les dénombrements ont été effectués par comptage des colonies sur milieu de culture gélosé (unité formant colonie ou UFC) et ne représentent donc que les bactéries hétérotrophes aérobies capables de se développer sur les milieux de culture utilisés.
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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