UNESCO

\y.nɛs.ko\

/\y.nɛs.ko\/ name

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The verdict

“UNESCO” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,476
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945.

Corpus desk

Index FR-unesco · UNESCO · French

UNESCO · rank #8,476 · 8 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,476
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH trajectoire

Nearest frequency peer: trajectoire (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « UNESCO »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « UNESCO » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

UNESCO vs unes
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « UNESCO »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).UNESCOse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « trajectoire » (#8,475), « urbains » (#8,477), « tirée » (#8,474). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « UNESCO » est au #8,476. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around UNESCO (IPA \y.nɛs.ko\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,476 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture, une institution spécialisée de l’ONU créée en 1945.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for UNESCO, with forms such as "nuesco", "uensco", and "unecso". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "unes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is UNESCO, spelled U-N-E-S-C-O.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how UNESCO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Créée par une convention en 1945, l’UNESCO est née en 1946 et comptait en octobre 2003 190 états membres.

Synonyms

Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • nuesco
  • uensco
  • unecso
  • unescco
  • unesoc
  • unessco
  • unnesco
  • unseco

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of UNESCO - 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.

nuesco2uensco2unecso2unescco1unesoc2unessco1unnesco1unseco2
Edit distance from "UNESCO"

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.

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 proper noun, "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. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "UNESCO", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Sylvie#8,472venues#8,480Sydney#8,471XVIIIe#8,483

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

vends8 variantsabattre8 variantsanimée8 variantsreçues8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list