unicorn
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#82,555
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
unicorn is aFrenchnoun. It means: Licorne ; quadrupède fabuleux, ressemblant à une biche portant une corne au milieu du front, à queue de lion et barbiche de chèvre, dont il est souvent question dans les bestiaires et les légendes ... Pronounced \ˈjuː.nɪ.kɔːn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unicorn |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈjuː.nɪ.kɔːn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,555 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for unicorn is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈjuː.nɪ.kɔːn\. Corpus data places it at rank #82,555 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for unicorn in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 unicorn, spelled U-N-I-C-O-R-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Licorne ; quadrupède fabuleux, ressemblant à une biche portant une corne au milieu du front, à queue de lion et barbiche de chèvre, dont il est souvent question dans les bestiaires et les légendes du Moyen Âge.
- 2Licorne, startup évaluée à plus d’un milliard de dollars et qui est financée par un fonds de capital-risque.
- 3Représentation d’un tel animal qu’on trouve surtout dans les ornements extérieurs de l’écu, comme dans les armes de Grande-Bretagne et d’Écosse.
- 4Dans différentes traductions de la Bible, utilisées pour rendre le latin unicornis ou rhinoceros (traduisant l’hébreu רְאֵם) ; bœuf sauvage ou re’em.
Frequency rank: #82,555 in French
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