Utica
The verdict
“Utica” is uncommon French (frequency #73,630 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,630
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Utique, ville au nord de Carthage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utica · Utica · French
Utica · rank #73,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 « Utica »
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 « Utica » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Utica |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Utica » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Utica is uncommon French at frequency #73,630 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Utique, ville au nord de Carthage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Utica, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Utica, spelled U-T-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1Utique, ville au nord de Carthage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Utica appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Principium habet Indiae pars versa ad austrum. patet usque Arabiam et Rubri maris accolas. continentur Gedrosi, Carmani, Persae, Elymaei, Parthyene, Aria, Susiane, Mesopotamia, Seleucia cognominata Babylonia, Arabia ad Petras usque, Syria Coele, Pelusium, Aegypti inferiora, quae Chora vocatur, Alexandria, Africae maritima, Cyrenaica oppida omnia, Thapsus,…
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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