Ugine
\y.ʒin\
The verdict
“Ugine” is uncommon French (frequency #87,227 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,227
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ugine · Ugine · French
Ugine · rank #87,227 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,227
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH témoigneront
Nearest frequency peer: témoigneront (-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 « Ugine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trilles
trilles
12,778 corpus weight
- trilobites
trilobites
12,777 corpus weight
- témoigneront
témoigneront
12,775 corpus weight
- Ugine
Ugine
12,774 corpus weight
- urbex
urbex
12,772 corpus weight
- vacs
vacs
12,770 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ugine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ugine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ʒin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ugine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ugine is uncommon French at frequency #87,227 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \y.ʒin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ugine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ugine, spelled U-G-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de la Savoie.
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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