uppercut
\y.pɛʁ.kyt\
The verdict
“uppercut” is uncommon French (frequency #56,343 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,343
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup de poing réalisé de bas en haut, et délivré le plus souvent à mi-distance avec le bras semi-fléchi, dans un combat de boxe ou une rixe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uppercut · uppercut · French
uppercut · rank #56,343 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,343
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH UPC
Nearest frequency peer: UPC (-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 « uppercut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- UPC
UPC
43,659 corpus weight
- uppercut
uppercut
43,658 corpus weight
- usurier
usurier
43,657 corpus weight
- vacher
vacher
43,656 corpus weight
- vagabondage
vagabondage
43,655 corpus weight
- Valhalla
Valhalla
43,654 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uppercut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uppercut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.pɛʁ.kyt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,343 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uppercut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uppercut is uncommon French at frequency #56,343 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.pɛʁ.kyt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coup de poing réalisé de bas en haut, et délivré le plus souvent à mi-distance avec le bras semi-fléchi, dans un combat de boxe ou une rixe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for uppercut in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is uppercut, spelled U-P-P-E-R-C-U-T.
Definition
- 1Coup de poing réalisé de bas en haut, et délivré le plus souvent à mi-distance avec le bras semi-fléchi, dans un combat de boxe ou une rixe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uppercut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais quand Habib, rendu furieux par un uppercut qui faillit l’envoyer à terre, se ressaisit et fonça bestialement sur l’homme au beau visage, le combat prit une allure saisissante.
Il avait ramassé notamment deux droites assez violentes, un uppercut qui l'avait fait vaciller.
Synonyms
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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