Uppsala
The verdict
“Uppsala” is uncommon French (frequency #69,510 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,510
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Suède située à 70 km au nord de Stockholm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uppsala · Uppsala · French
Uppsala · rank #69,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,510
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unilingues
Nearest frequency peer: unilingues (-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 « Uppsala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- témoignaient
témoignaient
30,494 corpus weight
- unilingues
unilingues
30,492 corpus weight
- Uppsala
Uppsala
30,491 corpus weight
- urique
urique
30,490 corpus weight
- vacuum
vacuum
30,489 corpus weight
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Uppsala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uppsala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Uppsala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Uppsala is uncommon French at frequency #69,510 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Suède située à 70 km au nord de Stockholm.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Uppsala in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Uppsala, spelled U-P-P-S-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de Suède située à 70 km au nord de Stockholm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Uppsala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour son premier concours de la saison, chez lui à Uppsala (Suède), le 2 février, « Mondo » a passé une barre à 6,10 m.
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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