Unicode
\y.ni.kɔd\
The verdict
“Unicode” is uncommon French (frequency #59,701 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,701
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Standard informatique qui vise à donner à tout caractère de tout système d’écriture de langue un nom et un identifiant numérique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-unicode · Unicode · French
Unicode · rank #59,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,701
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH undertaker
Nearest frequency peer: undertaker (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Unicode »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Turgeon
Turgeon
40,303 corpus weight
- télévisuels
télévisuels
40,302 corpus weight
- undertaker
undertaker
40,301 corpus weight
- Unicode
Unicode
40,300 corpus weight
- urbanistique
urbanistique
40,299 corpus weight
- urgentistes
urgentistes
40,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Unicode » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Unicode |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.kɔd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Unicode » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Unicode is uncommon French at frequency #59,701 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \y.ni.kɔd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Unicode in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Unicode, spelled U-N-I-C-O-D-E.
Definition
- 1Standard informatique qui vise à donner à tout caractère de tout système d’écriture de langue un nom et un identifiant numérique.
- 2Par ce standard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Unicode appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les noms doivent être inscrits en UNICODE, tels qu'ils figurent sur la carte d'identité ou le passeport de la personne concernée. Si un nom s'écrit différemment en UNICODE et en ASCII, la transcription en ASCII doit aussi être indiquée entre parenthèses.
Unicode est devenu l’encodage interne de nombreux langages de programmation.
This word in other languages
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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