ugh
\yɡ\
The verdict
“ugh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,199) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,199
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mot utilisé pour indiquer la sagesse prêtée aux Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, souvent en levant une main, la paume ouverte vers l'avant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ugh · ugh · French
ugh · rank #43,199 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,199
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH usuelles
Nearest frequency peer: usuelles (+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 « ugh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- trucage
trucage
56,806 corpus weight
- truchement
truchement
56,805 corpus weight
- ugh
ugh
56,802 corpus weight
- usuelles
usuelles
56,801 corpus weight
- usurpé
usurpé
56,800 corpus weight
- Venice
Venice
56,797 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ugh » 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 | ugh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \yɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ugh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ugh is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "up", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \yɡ\. Frequency #43,199 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Mot utilisé pour indiquer la sagesse prêtée aux Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, souvent en levant une main, la paume ouverte vers l'avant.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ugh in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "up", "UK", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ugh, spelled U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Mot utilisé pour indiquer la sagesse prêtée aux Indiens d’Amérique du Nord, souvent en levant une main, la paume ouverte vers l'avant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ugh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les sketches qu’il apprend, Armando joue le rôle d’un vieux sage et dit Ugh entre toutes les phrases.
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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