ursuline
\yʁ.sy.lin\
The verdict
“ursuline” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Religieuse d’un ordre enseignant fondé par Ursule de Cologne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ursuline · ursuline · French
ursuline · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ursuline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yʁ.sy.lin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
ursuline is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \yʁ.sy.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Religieuse d’un ordre enseignant fondé par Ursule de Cologne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ursuline, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists 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 ursuline, spelled U-R-S-U-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Religieuse d’un ordre enseignant fondé par Ursule de Cologne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ursuline appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un couvent d’ursulines.
This word in other languages
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