utilis
\u.ˈti.lis\
The verdict
“utilis” is uncommon French (frequency #95,432 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,432
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé de utili.
Corpus desk
Index FR-utilis · utilis · French
utilis · rank #95,432 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,432
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH usurpations
Nearest frequency peer: usurpations (-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 « utilis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- vantail
vantail
4,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « utilis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | utilis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \u.ˈti.lis\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « utilis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
utilis is uncommon French at frequency #95,432 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \u.ˈti.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passé de utili.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for utilis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 utilis, spelled U-T-I-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Passé de utili.
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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