uit
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#44,796
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
uit is anFrenchonomatopoeia. It means: Bruit évoquant une action effectuée très rapidement. Pronounced \ɥit\. Often confused with un and up.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Onomatopoeia |
| IPA | \ɥit\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #44,796 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for uit is 3 letters long, classified as anonomatopoeia, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɥit\. Corpus data places it at rank #44,796 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Bruit évoquant une action effectuée très rapidement.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for uit in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "up", "UK", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is uit, spelled U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bruit évoquant une action effectuée très rapidement.
Frequency rank: #44,796 in French
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