urdu
[ˈuɾð̞u]
The verdict
“urdu” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,262 among 448 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,262
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 448
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index ES-urdu · urdu · Spanish
urdu · rank #53,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,262
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 448
- PHOTO-FINISH uti
Nearest frequency peer: uti (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “urdu”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- trituradora
trituradora
46,743 corpus weight
- tropezado
tropezado
46,742 corpus weight
- tumbos
tumbos
46,741 corpus weight
- urdu
urdu
46,739 corpus weight
- uti
uti
46,738 corpus weight
- vanilla
vanilla
46,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “urdu” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cola larga: rango de “urdu” en español
Rare enough to double-check
urdu is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,262 among 448 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈuɾð̞u]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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