unes
\yn\
The verdict
“unes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,815) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,815
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-unes · unes · French
unes · rank #4,815 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,815
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Ukraine
Nearest frequency peer: Ukraine (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « unes »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- tarif
tarif
95,189 corpus weight
- trous
trous
95,188 corpus weight
- Ukraine
Ukraine
95,187 corpus weight
- unes
unes
95,186 corpus weight
- urbaine
urbaine
95,185 corpus weight
- volontaires
volontaires
95,184 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « unes » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | unes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,815 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « unes »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for unes is neighbouring look-alikes ("uns", "uni", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \yn\. Frequency #4,815 among 456 “U” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for unes, with forms such as "uens", "uness", and "unnes". 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. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "uns", "uni", "usé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is unes, spelled U-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de un.
- 2Pluriel de une (de journal).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how unes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Prostitution : les uns, les unes et les autres
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uens
- uness
- unnes
- unse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of unes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).