uh-oh
[ˈʌ̆.ʔ˦oʊ˨]
The verdict
“uh-oh” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oups. Prononcée à la découverte d’une erreur ou d’un problème, pas forcément de soi-même.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uh-oh · uh-oh · French
uh-oh · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uh-oh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈʌ̆.ʔ˦oʊ˨] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uh-oh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uh-oh is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed [ˈʌ̆.ʔ˦oʊ˨]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Oups. Prononcée à la découverte d’une erreur ou d’un problème, pas forcément de soi-même.".
uh-oh has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 uh-oh, spelled U-H---O-H.
Definition
- 1Oups. Prononcée à la découverte d’une erreur ou d’un problème, pas forcément de soi-même.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.