UQAM
\y.kam\
The verdict
“UQAM” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,260. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,260
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Université du Québec à Montréal, université de Montréal faisant partie du réseau des Universités du Québec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uqam · UQAM · French
UQAM · rank #16,260 · 5 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,260
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH télécom
Nearest frequency peer: télécom (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « UQAM »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trompette
trompette
83,744 corpus weight
- tuez
tuez
83,743 corpus weight
- télécom
télécom
83,742 corpus weight
- UQAM
UQAM
83,741 corpus weight
- vaillant
vaillant
83,740 corpus weight
- valentine
valentine
83,739 corpus weight
What this shows « UQAM » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | UQAM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.kam\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « UQAM »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around UQAM (IPA \y.kam\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,260 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Université du Québec à Montréal, université de Montréal faisant partie du réseau des Universités du Québec.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for UQAM, with forms such as "quam", "uaqm", and "uqamm". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "USA", "Utah", "una", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is UQAM, spelled U-Q-A-M.
Definition
- 1Université du Québec à Montréal, université de Montréal faisant partie du réseau des Universités du Québec.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how UQAM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle a étudié au pensionnat. Qu’elle a détesté. Puis a commencé des études à l’UQAM, en communications.
Pour Jonathan Bonneau, coordonnateur du Laboratoire de recherche en médias socionumériques et ludification de l’UQAM, il faut mieux encadrer l’industrie du jeu vidéo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- quam
- uaqm
- uqamm
- uqma
- uqqam
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of UQAM - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).