uhlans
\y.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“uhlans” is uncommon French (frequency #98,603 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,603
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de uhlan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uhlans · uhlans · French
uhlans · rank #98,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,603
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unifamiliales
Nearest frequency peer: unifamiliales (+2 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 « uhlans »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- télescopage
télescopage
1,402 corpus weight
- télomères
télomères
1,401 corpus weight
- uhlans
uhlans
1,398 corpus weight
- unifamilial…
unifamiliales
1,396 corpus weight
- università
università
1,395 corpus weight
- Urd
Urd
1,394 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uhlans » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uhlans |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uhlans » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uhlans is uncommon French at frequency #98,603 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.lɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de uhlan.".
No misspelling variants are generated for uhlans in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 uhlans, spelled U-H-L-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de uhlan.
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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