useless
\ˈju:sləs\
The verdict
“useless” is uncommon French (frequency #64,857 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,857
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inutile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-useless · useless · French
useless · rank #64,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,857
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH uruguayenne
Nearest frequency peer: uruguayenne (-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 « useless »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ultramoderne
ultramoderne
35,147 corpus weight
- understandi…
understanding
35,146 corpus weight
- uruguayenne
uruguayenne
35,145 corpus weight
- useless
useless
35,144 corpus weight
- utilitarisme
utilitarisme
35,143 corpus weight
- uva
uva
35,142 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « useless » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | useless |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈju:sləs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #64,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « useless » en français
Rare enough to double-check
useless is uncommon French at frequency #64,857 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈju:sləs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Inutile.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for useless, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is useless, spelled U-S-E-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Inutile.
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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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