Ussel
\y.sɛl\
The verdict
“Ussel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,628 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,628
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune située dans le département du Cantal, en France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ussel · Ussel · French
Ussel · rank #73,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,628
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH usurpée
Nearest frequency peer: usurpée (+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 « Ussel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unai
unai
26,376 corpus weight
- uruguayens
uruguayens
26,375 corpus weight
- Ussel
Ussel
26,373 corpus weight
- usurpée
usurpée
26,372 corpus weight
- Utica
Utica
26,371 corpus weight
- valaisan
valaisan
26,370 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ussel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ussel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ussel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ussel is uncommon French at frequency #73,628 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \y.sɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Ussel has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Ussel, spelled U-S-S-E-L.
Definition
- 1Commune située dans le département du Cantal, en France.
- 2Commune située dans le département de la Corrèze, en France.
- 3Commune située dans le département de la Corrèze, en France.
- 4Commune située dans le département du Lot, en France.
- 5Hameau de Châtillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ussel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
N’étant jamais sorti de mon village, j’étais curieux de voir une ville. Mais je dois avouer qu’Ussel ne m’éblouit point. Ses vieilles maisons à tourelles, qui font sans doute le bonheur des archéologues, me laissèrent tout à fait indifférent.
L’objectif sera de réaliser un parcours de 5km non chronométré autour du Lac de Ponty à Ussel.
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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