unilingue
\y.ni.lɛ̃ɡ\
The verdict
“unilingue” is uncommon French (frequency #75,327 among 44,794 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,327
- frequency rank, French
- 44,794
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui ne parle, qui n’emploie qu’une seule langue.
| 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) |
Where “unilingue” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
unilingue is uncommon French at frequency #75,327 among 44,794 “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.
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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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Using “unilingue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is U-N-I-L-I-N-G-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.