URL
noun
URL is spelled U-R-L: 3 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, URL means “Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of URL is URLs.
How many letters and syllables are in URL?
| Letters | 3: U-R-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.2 times per million words; the 8,784th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is URL?
URL appears 7.2 times per million words in written English, the 8,784th 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 URL?
URL has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of URL
- URLs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does URL mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Initialism of Uniform Resource Locator: the address of a web page, FTP site, audio stream or other Internet resource.
https://en.wiktionary.org/ is the URL of the English Wiktionary.
- 2
A domain name.
- 3
The username associated with a Tumblr blog and typically included in its URL.
- 4
USInitialism of unrestricted line officer.
- 5
Initialism of upper reference limit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
URL in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Uniform Resource Locator:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | URL |
| German | URL |
| Portuguese | endereço |
| Spanish | LRU |
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.