una
The verdict
“una” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,505) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,505
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un, une.
Corpus desk
Index FR-una · una · French
una · rank #16,505 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,505
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH ultérieure
Nearest frequency peer: ultérieure (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “una”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tumeurs
tumeurs
83,499 corpus weight
- turquoise
turquoise
83,498 corpus weight
- ultérieure
ultérieure
83,497 corpus weight
- una
una
83,496 corpus weight
- vices
vices
83,495 corpus weight
- vignobles
vignobles
83,494 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “una” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | una |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “una” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for una is neighbouring look-alikes ("up", "UV", …), not just typos; it is anarticle. Frequency #16,505 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Un, une.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for una, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "up", "UV", "ut", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is una, spelled U-N-A.
Definition
- 1Un, une.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how una appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El febrer de l’any següent, el company de viatge, molt complidor, em va enviar una targeta manuscrita per anunciar-me el naixement del seu primogènit, […].
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "una" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "up". View pair
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.