uss
\ys\
The verdict
“uss” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,184) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,184
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Porte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uss · uss · French
uss · rank #29,184 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,184
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH UPR
Nearest frequency peer: UPR (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “uss”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- téléchargem…
téléchargements
70,820 corpus weight
- upper
upper
70,819 corpus weight
- UPR
UPR
70,818 corpus weight
- uss
uss
70,817 corpus weight
- vaudeville
vaudeville
70,816 corpus weight
- vel
vel
70,815 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “uss” against nearest ranked French headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uss |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ys\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “uss” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for uss is neighbouring look-alikes ("UV", "ut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ys\. Frequency #29,184 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Porte.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for uss, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "UV", "ut", "ux", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 uss, spelled U-S-S.
Definition
- 1Porte.
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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).