ux
\wo\
The verdict
“ux” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,392) as a typographic variant. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #28,392
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ŭ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ux · ux · French
ux · rank #28,392 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,392
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH univ
Nearest frequency peer: univ (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “ux”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- télécommuni…
télécommunication
71,614 corpus weight
- univ
univ
71,610 corpus weight
- ux
ux
71,609 corpus weight
- V1
V1
71,608 corpus weight
- Vallaud
Vallaud
71,607 corpus weight
- vendetta
vendetta
71,606 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “ux” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Typographic variant |
| IPA | \wo\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #28,392 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “ux” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ux is neighbouring look-alikes ("wo", "U", …), not just typos; it is atypographic variant pronounced \wo\. Frequency #28,392 among 456 “U” headwords. Gloss: "Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ŭ.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ux, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wo", "U", "un", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ux, spelled U-X.
Definition
- 1Orthographe par contrainte typographique par système x de ŭ.
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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- "ux" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "wo". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #28,392 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.