urdu
[ˈuɾð̞u]
The verdict
“urdu” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #53,262 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,262
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Idioma de la familia indoirania que se escribe en caracteres árabes. Es oficial en Pakistán y los estados de Jammu y Cachemira y Andhra Pradesh, en India.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urdu |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈuɾð̞u] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “urdu” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for urdu is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuɾð̞u]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,262 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Idioma de la familia indoirania que se escribe en caracteres árabes. Es oficial en Pakistán y los estados de Jammu y Cachemira y Andhra Pradesh, en India.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for urdu, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is urdu, spelled U-R-D-U.
Definition
- 1Idioma de la familia indoirania que se escribe en caracteres árabes. Es oficial en Pakistán y los estados de Jammu y Cachemira y Andhra Pradesh, en India.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “urdu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-R-D-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈuɾð̞u] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.