ursus
\ˈuɾ.sus\
The verdict
“ursus” is uncommon French (frequency #68,719 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,719
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ursus · ursus · French
ursus · rank #68,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,719
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urgemment
Nearest frequency peer: urgemment (-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 « ursus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ubaye
Ubaye
31,285 corpus weight
- urbanité
urbanité
31,284 corpus weight
- urgemment
urgemment
31,283 corpus weight
- ursus
ursus
31,282 corpus weight
- usuellement
usuellement
31,281 corpus weight
- vab
vab
31,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ursus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ursus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈuɾ.sus\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ursus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ursus is uncommon French at frequency #68,719 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈuɾ.sus\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ours.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ursus, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ursus, spelled U-R-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Ours.
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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