USSR
\ˈju ˈɛs ˈɛs ˈɑɹ\
The verdict
“USSR” is uncommon French (frequency #98,608 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,608
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - URSS.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ussr · USSR · French
USSR · rank #98,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,608
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Urd
Nearest frequency peer: Urd (-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 « USSR »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unifamilial…
unifamiliales
1,396 corpus weight
- università
università
1,395 corpus weight
- Urd
Urd
1,394 corpus weight
- USSR
USSR
1,393 corpus weight
- vagal
vagal
1,391 corpus weight
- valgus
valgus
1,390 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « USSR » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | USSR |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈju ˈɛs ˈɛs ˈɑɹ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #98,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « USSR » en français
Rare enough to double-check
USSR is uncommon French at frequency #98,608 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈju ˈɛs ˈɛs ˈɑɹ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "URSS.".
USSR doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is USSR, spelled U-S-S-R.
Definition
- 1URSS.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).