useful
The verdict
“useful” is uncommon French (frequency #86,286 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,286
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-useful · useful · French
useful · rank #86,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,286
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH unidos
Nearest frequency peer: unidos (-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 « useful »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- umi
umi
13,718 corpus weight
- unexpected
unexpected
13,717 corpus weight
- unidos
unidos
13,716 corpus weight
- useful
useful
13,715 corpus weight
- vabres
vabres
13,713 corpus weight
- vacheries
vacheries
13,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « useful » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | useful |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « useful » en français
Rare enough to double-check
useful is uncommon French at frequency #86,286 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utile.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for useful, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is useful, spelled U-S-E-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Utile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how useful appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Based on the performance of our Fibonacci numbers program you might be tempted to conclude that recursive solutions are too slow to be useful.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).