uso
\ˈu.so\
The verdict
“uso” is uncommon French (frequency #58,329 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,329
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emploi, utilisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uso · uso · French
uso · rank #58,329 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,329
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH updates
Nearest frequency peer: updates (-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 « uso »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- uli
uli
41,675 corpus weight
- unijambiste
unijambiste
41,674 corpus weight
- updates
updates
41,673 corpus weight
- uso
uso
41,672 corpus weight
- valens
valens
41,671 corpus weight
- Valognes
Valognes
41,670 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uso » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈu.so\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #58,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uso » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uso is uncommon French at frequency #58,329 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈu.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Emploi, utilisation.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uso, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is uso, spelled U-S-O.
Definition
- 1Emploi, utilisation.
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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