uw
\ˈyw\
The verdict
“uw” is uncommon French (frequency #91,266 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,266
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ta, tien, ton, votre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uw · uw · French
uw · rank #91,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,266
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH usures
Nearest frequency peer: usures (-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 « uw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- usures
usures
8,736 corpus weight
- uw
uw
8,735 corpus weight
- vacataire
vacataire
8,734 corpus weight
- valente
valente
8,733 corpus weight
- vava
vava
8,732 corpus weight
- Venceslas
Venceslas
8,731 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈyw\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #91,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uw is uncommon French at frequency #91,266 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈyw\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ta, tien, ton, votre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for uw in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 uw, spelled U-W.
Definition
- 1Ta, tien, ton, votre.
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.