ULIS
\y.lis\
The verdict
“ULIS” is uncommon French (frequency #51,196 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,196
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité localisée pour l’inclusion scolaire des élèves handicapés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ulis · ULIS · French
ULIS · rank #51,196 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,196
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Umtiti
Nearest frequency peer: Umtiti (+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 « ULIS »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- TTBM
TTBM
48,808 corpus weight
- tuaient
tuaient
48,807 corpus weight
- ULIS
ULIS
48,805 corpus weight
- Umtiti
Umtiti
48,804 corpus weight
- usual
usual
48,803 corpus weight
- vaccine
vaccine
48,802 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ULIS » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ULIS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.lis\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #51,196 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ULIS » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ULIS is uncommon French at frequency #51,196 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité localisée pour l’inclusion scolaire des élèves handicapés.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ULIS in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 ULIS, spelled U-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Unité localisée pour l’inclusion scolaire des élèves handicapés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ULIS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, l’école élémentaire du Val d’or bénéficie d’une classe ULIS, un dispositif porté par l’éducation nationale permettant d’accueillir des élèves en situation de handicap afin de les faire bénéficier d’un enseignement individualisé.
Les ULIS sont des classes particulières pour la scolarisation d’élèves en situation de handicap.
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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