URL
[ˈuɾl]
The verdict
“URL” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #12,273 in Spanish word frequency and used as an abbreviation.
- #12,273
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | URL |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈuɾl] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “URL” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for URL is 3 letters long, classified as an abbreviation, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈuɾl]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,273 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/".
Zero misspellings are on record for URL in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ut", "uso", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is URL, spelled U-R-L.
Definition
- 1Es la forma universalmente utilizada para especificar la dirección global de documentos en el internet, Una URL es una cadena de caracteres que consta de los siguientes componentes: ://:@:/
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 “URL”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-R-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈuɾl] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “us” - see the side-by-side comparison. URL vs us
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.