unilingue
\y.ni.lɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“unilingue” is uncommon French (frequency #75,327 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,327
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ne parle, qui n’emploie qu’une seule langue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-unilingue · unilingue · French
unilingue · rank #75,327 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,327
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH téléroman
Nearest frequency peer: téléroman (-3 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 « unilingue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- tutorial
tutorial
24,680 corpus weight
- twisted
twisted
24,679 corpus weight
- téléroman
téléroman
24,677 corpus weight
- unilingue
unilingue
24,674 corpus weight
- verdoyants
verdoyants
24,670 corpus weight
- versatilité
versatilité
24,669 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « unilingue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unilingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ni.lɛ̃ɡ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « unilingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
unilingue is uncommon French at frequency #75,327 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \y.ni.lɛ̃ɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ne parle, qui n’emploie qu’une seule langue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for unilingue in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 unilingue, spelled U-N-I-L-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui ne parle, qui n’emploie qu’une seule langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how unilingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des intervenants déplorent l’accueil unilingue en anglais et l’impossibilité de se faire servir en français dans plusieurs commerces du centre-ville de Montréal.
Il s’est trouvé désemparé devant cet écriteau unilingue.
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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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