Ukraine
\y.kʁɛn\
The verdict
“Ukraine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,814. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,814
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays d’Europe, entouré par la mer Noire au sud, la Russie à l’est, la Biélorussie au nord-ouest, la Pologne à l’ouest-nord-ouest, la Slovaquie, la Hongrie et la Roumanie à l’ouest et la Moldavie au...
Corpus desk
Index FR-ukraine · Ukraine · French
Ukraine · rank #4,814 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,814
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH trous
Nearest frequency peer: trous (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ukraine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- séparer
séparer
95,190 corpus weight
- tarif
tarif
95,189 corpus weight
- trous
trous
95,188 corpus weight
- Ukraine
Ukraine
95,187 corpus weight
- unes
unes
95,186 corpus weight
- urbaine
urbaine
95,185 corpus weight
What this shows « Ukraine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Ukraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.kʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ukraine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Ukraine (IPA \y.kʁɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,814 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pays d’Europe, entouré par la mer Noire au sud, la Russie à l’est, la Biélorussie au nord-ouest, la Pologne à l’ouest-nord-ouest, la Slovaquie, la Hongrie et la Roumanie à l’ouest et la Moldavie au...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ukraine, with forms such as "kuraine", "ukarine", and "ukkraine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "urine", "urbaine", "ukrainien", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ukraine, spelled U-K-R-A-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Europe, entouré par la mer Noire au sud, la Russie à l’est, la Biélorussie au nord-ouest, la Pologne à l’ouest-nord-ouest, la Slovaquie, la Hongrie et la Roumanie à l’ouest et la Moldavie au sud-ouest. Sa capitale est Kyiv.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ukraine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il termina son petit exposé en m’apprenant la récente formation, en Ukraine, sous les auspices de l’Angleterre et de la France, de légions tchécoslovaques, destinées à seconder les efforts de l’Entente et à lutter contre les bolchevicks.
Après une révolution qui n’a pas tenu ses promesses en 2014 et le redécoupage de ses frontières, l’Ukraine est à un tournant de son histoire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- kuraine
- ukarine
- ukkraine
- ukraien
- ukrainne
- ukranie
- ukriane
- ukrraine
- urkaine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ukraine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ukraine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).