ulnaire
\yl.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“ulnaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne l’ulna.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ulnaire · ulnaire · French
ulnaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ulnaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yl.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ulnaire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ulnaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \yl.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ulnaire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 ulnaire, spelled U-L-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne l’ulna.
- 2Du côté de la main ou de l’avant-bras proche de l’ulna.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ulnaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Statistiquement, c’est habituellement du côté ulnaire que cette artère dominante est retrouvée pour l’index et le troisième doigt, du côté radial pour les quatrième et cinquième doigts.
Le nerf ulnaire est parfois surnommé petit juif.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.