Uriel

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The verdict

“Uriel” is uncommon German (frequency #79,876 among 2,159 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,876
frequency rank, German
2,159
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - männlicher Vorname

Corpus desk

Index DE-uriel · Uriel · German

Uriel · rank #79,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,876
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,159
  • PHOTO-FINISH upgraden

Nearest frequency peer: upgraden (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Uriel“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Uriel“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Uriel
PropertyValue
HeadwordUriel
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#79,876
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Uriel“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.Urielfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „upgraden“ (#79,875), „Urner“ (#79,877), „unübersichtlicher“ (#79,874). Unter 2,159 „U“-Lemmata liegt „Uriel“ bei #79,876. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Uriel is uncommon German at frequency #79,876 among 2,159 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Uriel, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Uriel, spelled U-R-I-E-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    männlicher Vorname

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Uriel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Uriel spielt sehr gut Tennis.

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Uriel"?
"Uriel" is spelled U-R-I-E-L. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Uriel" mean?
As a proper noun, "Uriel" means: männlicher Vorname
How do you pronounce "Uriel"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Uriel" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Uriel" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Uriel", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Urner#79,877Vroni#79,916Tonga#79,830waten#79,927

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list