usque
The verdict
“usque” is uncommon French (frequency #95,430 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,430
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Continuellement, jusqu'au bout, sans interruption, sans cesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-usque · usque · French
usque · rank #95,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,430
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Universität
Nearest frequency peer: Universität (-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 « usque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- télécommand…
télécommandée
4,574 corpus weight
- Universität
Universität
4,572 corpus weight
- usque
usque
4,571 corpus weight
- usurpations
usurpations
4,570 corpus weight
- utilis
utilis
4,569 corpus weight
- vacillant
vacillant
4,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « usque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « usque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
usque is uncommon French at frequency #95,430 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for usque in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is usque, spelled U-S-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Continuellement, jusqu'au bout, sans interruption, sans cesse.
- 2Jusque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how usque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
cantantes licet usque, minus via laedit, eamus
usque ad ravim poscam.
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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