Ulysse
\y.lis\
The verdict
“Ulysse” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,779
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ulysse · Ulysse · French
Ulysse · rank #15,779 · 7 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,779
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH télévisé
Nearest frequency peer: télévisé (-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 « Ulysse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trompent
trompent
84,225 corpus weight
- turques
turques
84,224 corpus weight
- télévisé
télévisé
84,223 corpus weight
- Ulysse
Ulysse
84,222 corpus weight
- vintage
vintage
84,220 corpus weight
- yu
yu
84,219 corpus weight
What this shows « Ulysse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ulysse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,779 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ulysse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Ulysse (IPA \y.lis\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #15,779 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ulysse, with forms such as "luysse", "ullysse", and "ulsyse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ulysse, spelled U-L-Y-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- luysse
- ullysse
- ulsyse
- ulyse
- ulyses
- ulyysse
- uylsse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ulysse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "Ulysse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).