UNESCO

/\y.nɛs.ko\/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,476

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

UNESCO is aFrenchname. It means: Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945. Pronounced \y.nɛs.ko\. It ranks #8,476 in French word frequency. Often confused with unes.

Key facts for UNESCO
PropertyValue
HeadwordUNESCO
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\y.nɛs.ko\
Letters6
Frequency rank#8,476
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for UNESCO is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.nɛs.ko\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,476 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for UNESCO, with forms such as "nuesco", "uensco", and "unecso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "unes", 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 UNESCO, spelled U-N-E-S-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: nuesco,uensco,unecso,unescco,unesoc,unessco,unnesco,unseco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for UNESCO

Misspelling Variants of "UNESCO"

nuesco6uensco6unecso6unescco7unesoc6unessco7unnesco7unseco6
Misspelling Variants of "UNESCO"

Frequency rank: #8,476 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "UNESCO"?
"UNESCO" is spelled U-N-E-S-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is \y.nɛs.ko\.
What does "UNESCO" mean?
As a name, "UNESCO" means: Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945.
What words are commonly confused with "UNESCO"?
"UNESCO" is commonly confused with "unes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "UNESCO"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "UNESCO" is \y.nɛs.ko\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "UNESCO" come from?
"UNESCO" 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.