umm
\umː\
The verdict
“umm” is uncommon French (frequency #59,001 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,001
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propre, personnel, à soi, pour soi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-umm · umm · French
umm · rank #59,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,001
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urge
Nearest frequency peer: urge (+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 « umm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trouées
trouées
41,003 corpus weight
- téléchargea…
téléchargeables
41,002 corpus weight
- umm
umm
41,000 corpus weight
- urge
urge
40,999 corpus weight
- utiliseraie…
utiliseraient
40,998 corpus weight
- vader
vader
40,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « umm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | umm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \umː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #59,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « umm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
umm is uncommon French at frequency #59,001 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \umː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Propre, personnel, à soi, pour soi.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for umm, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 umm, spelled U-M-M.
Definition
- 1Propre, personnel, à soi, pour soi.
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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