und

/\ʊnt\/ conj

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,125

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

und is aFrenchconj. It means: Et, concatène deux éléments dans une même relation. Pronounced \ʊnt\. It ranks #7,125 in French word frequency. Often confused with up and UV.

Key facts for und
PropertyValue
Headwordund
LanguageFrench
Part of speechConj
IPA\ʊnt\
Letters3
Frequency rank#7,125
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of und in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for und is 3 letters long, classified as aconj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʊnt\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,125 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for und in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "up", "UV", "ut", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is und, spelled U-N-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Et, concatène deux éléments dans une même relation.
  2. 2
    Et, concatène le dernier de plusieurs éléments, sans virgule, dans une même relation.
  3. 3
    Et, concatène la notion globale de genre aux éléments prédits.
  4. 4
    Et, concatène deux verbes identiques pour exprimer une activité ou un état continu, de longue durée, ininterrompu.
  5. 5
    Et, concatène deux mots identiques pour désigner un renforcement, une augmentation, une intensification.
  6. 6
    Et, désigne que un élément unit deux caractéristiques.
  7. 7
    Et, unit des éléments contraires pour désigner l’ensemble de tous éléments.
  8. 8
    Et, exprime une relation forte entre deux éléments.
  9. 9
    Plus, somme des nombres précédent et suivant.
  10. 10
    À, concatène deux éléments indéfinis pour désigner qu'il n'est pas nécessaire de donner un renseignement plus spécifique.
  11. 11
    Et, introduit une phrase en la mettant en relation avec ce qui était dit auparavant.

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Antonyms

Frequency rank: #7,125 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "und"?
"und" is spelled U-N-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ʊnt\.
What does "und" mean?
As a conj, "und" means: Et, concatène deux éléments dans une même relation.
What words are commonly confused with "und"?
"und" is commonly confused with "up", "UV", "ut". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "und"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "und" is \ʊnt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "und" come from?
"und" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.