uruguayens
\y.ʁy.ɡwa.jɛ̃\
The verdict
“uruguayens” is uncommon French (frequency #73,626 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,626
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de uruguayen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uruguayens · uruguayens · French
uruguayens · rank #73,626 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,626
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unai
Nearest frequency peer: unai (-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 « uruguayens »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- uberisation
uberisation
26,378 corpus weight
- UDP
UDP
26,377 corpus weight
- unai
unai
26,376 corpus weight
- uruguayens
uruguayens
26,375 corpus weight
- Ussel
Ussel
26,373 corpus weight
- usurpée
usurpée
26,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uruguayens » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uruguayens |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ʁy.ɡwa.jɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #73,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uruguayens » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uruguayens is uncommon French at frequency #73,626 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \y.ʁy.ɡwa.jɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de uruguayen.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uruguayens, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is uruguayens, spelled U-R-U-G-U-A-Y-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de uruguayen.
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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