uzi
\y.zi\
The verdict
“uzi” is uncommon French (frequency #54,985 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,985
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pistolet mitrailleur israélien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uzi · uzi · French
uzi · rank #54,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,985
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Vabre
Nearest frequency peer: Vabre (+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 « uzi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unlimited
unlimited
45,021 corpus weight
- uro
uro
45,019 corpus weight
- uzi
uzi
45,016 corpus weight
- Vabre
Vabre
45,015 corpus weight
- venom
venom
45,013 corpus weight
- ventiler
ventiler
45,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uzi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uzi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.zi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #54,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uzi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uzi is uncommon French at frequency #54,985 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pistolet mitrailleur israélien.".
uzi doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is uzi, spelled U-Z-I.
Definition
- 1Pistolet mitrailleur israélien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uzi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien sûr que les policiers doivent avoir de meilleurs moyens pour lutter contre la grosse délinquance, mais c’est tout aussi important de les équiper sérieusement sur le terrain, vous avez déjà essayé de répondre avec un six-coups ou un beretta lorsqu’on vous arrose avec une kalach ou un uzi, remarque sur un site de gauche comme ici où on n’avait pas écri…
This word in other languages
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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