unité
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,427
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
unité is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élément singulier, qui a le nombre un. Pronounced \y.ni.te\. It ranks #1,427 in French word frequency. Often confused with univ and UNIX.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for unité is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ni.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,427 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 14 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for unité, with forms such as "nuité", "uinté", and "unite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "univ", "UNIX", "utile", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 unité, spelled U-N-I-T-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élément singulier, qui a le nombre un.
- 2Quantité élémentaire qui est à la base d’un calcul.
- 3Grandeur finie, choisie arbitrairement pour servir de terme de comparaison aux autres grandeurs de même espèce.
- 4Caractère de ce qui est singulier, par opposition à pluralité.
- 5Caractère de ce qui offre un ensemble, une suite où tout se tient.
- 6Unité de composition, Principe d’après lequel les animaux et les végétaux les plus différents par leur forme, leur volume, leur couleur, etc., peuvent se ramener à un type commun.
- 7Groupe constitué de soldats, gendarmes ou policiers commandés par un chef.
- 8Personnage, objet ou groupe de personnages ou d’objets manipulable.
- 9Composant d’un appareil électronique (ordinateur, etc.) qui exécute une opération particulière.
- 10Partie d’une organisation ou d’une société.
- 11Véhicule.
- 12Élément neutre de la multiplication dans une structure algébrique (1 dans le cadre des nombres).
- 13Million.
- 14Valeur attribuée à une certaine durée lors d’une communication téléphonique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: nuité,uinté,unite,unitté,uniét,unnité,untié
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for unité
Misspelling Variants of "unité"
Frequency rank: #1,427 in French
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Nearby French words
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