uva
\ˈu.ba\
The verdict
“uva” is uncommon French (frequency #64,859 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,859
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raisin, fruit de la vigne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uva · uva · French
uva · rank #64,859 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,859
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH utilitarisme
Nearest frequency peer: utilitarisme (-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 « uva »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- uruguayenne
uruguayenne
35,145 corpus weight
- useless
useless
35,144 corpus weight
- utilitarisme
utilitarisme
35,143 corpus weight
- uva
uva
35,142 corpus weight
- vacantes
vacantes
35,141 corpus weight
- vald
vald
35,140 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uva » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uva |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈu.ba\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #64,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uva » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uva is uncommon French at frequency #64,859 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈu.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Raisin, fruit de la vigne.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for uva, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is uva, spelled U-V-A.
Definition
- 1Raisin, fruit de la vigne.
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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