ULB
\y.ɛl.be\
The verdict
“ULB” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,052) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,052
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de ultralarge bande.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ulb · ULB · French
ULB · rank #41,052 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,052
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH tweed
Nearest frequency peer: tweed (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ULB »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tss
tss
58,953 corpus weight
- Tudor
Tudor
58,951 corpus weight
- tweed
tweed
58,950 corpus weight
- ULB
ULB
58,949 corpus weight
- usité
usité
58,948 corpus weight
- vaccinations
vaccinations
58,947 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ULB » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ULB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ɛl.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ULB »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ULB is neighbouring look-alikes ("un", "up", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \y.ɛl.be\. Frequency #41,052 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de ultralarge bande.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ULB in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "un", "up", "UV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ULB, spelled U-L-B.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de ultralarge bande.
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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