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urinal

/ˈjʊɹɪnəl/noun, adjective

urinal is spelled U-R-I-N-A-L: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, urinal means “A device or fixture used for urination, particularly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of urinal is urinals.

How many letters and syllables are in urinal?

Letters6: U-R-I-N-A-L
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 37,943rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is urinal?

Urinal appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 37,943rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce urinal?

  • UK /jʊəˈraɪnəl/
  • US /ˈjʊɹɪnəl/
  • US /ˈjɝɪnəl/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-urinal.wav, En-us-urinal.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with urinal?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as urinal (/ʊɹɪnəl/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: laurin.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of urinal

  • urinals plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does urinal mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A device or fixture used for urination, particularly

  2. 2

    A glass vial used for examining or storing urine.

  3. 3

    obsoleteA chamber pot specially designed or considered as a device for urination.

  4. 4

    A device for urination worn or used by patients suffering urinary incontinence.

  5. 5

    A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.

  6. 6

    obsoleteAny oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.

  7. 7

    obsoleteA room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

adjective

  1. 1

    Synonym of urinary.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Urinal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpistolet, urinal (a vessel specially used for urination – see…), urinoir (fixture for standing urination)
GermanEnte (a vessel specially used for urination – see…), Urinal, Pissoir, Pinkelbecken (fixture for standing urination)
Portuguesemictório (a vessel specially used for urination – see…), urinol (fixture for standing urination)
Spanishchata, orinal (a vessel specially used for urination – see…), urinario, mingitorio, meadero (fixture for standing urination)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does urinal come from?

From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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