ukulélé
\ju.ku.le.le\
The verdict
“ukulélé” is uncommon French (frequency #53,680 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,680
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit instrument hawaïen à cordes pincées, d’une forme semblable à un cavaquinho ou à une très petite guitare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ukulele · ukulélé · French
ukulélé · rank #53,680 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,680
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH UdeM
Nearest frequency peer: UdeM (-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 « ukulélé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tubercule
tubercule
46,324 corpus weight
- tétraplégiq…
tétraplégique
46,323 corpus weight
- UdeM
UdeM
46,322 corpus weight
- ukulélé
ukulélé
46,321 corpus weight
- unilatérales
unilatérales
46,319 corpus weight
- validant
validant
46,318 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ukulélé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ukulélé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ju.ku.le.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,680 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ukulélé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ukulélé is uncommon French at frequency #53,680 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ju.ku.le.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit instrument hawaïen à cordes pincées, d’une forme semblable à un cavaquinho ou à une très petite guitare.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ukulélé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ukulélé, spelled U-K-U-L-É-L-É.
Definition
- 1Petit instrument hawaïen à cordes pincées, d’une forme semblable à un cavaquinho ou à une très petite guitare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ukulélé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des coquillages qui évoquent la mer, un petit plat tout en matière recyclée autour d’un arbre qui luit, un ukulélé qui fait tinter ses mélodies avec la douce voix d’Élodie Milo…
Il est désormais possible de repartir chez soi avec une guitare électrique, un djembé ou un ukulélé.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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