Uranie
\y.ʁa.ni\
The verdict
“Uranie” is uncommon French (frequency #94,360 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,360
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Muse de l’astronomie et de l’astrologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uranie · Uranie · French
Uranie · rank #94,360 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,360
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH uru
Nearest frequency peer: uru (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Uranie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ultimatums
ultimatums
5,643 corpus weight
- Uranie
Uranie
5,641 corpus weight
- uru
uru
5,640 corpus weight
- usually
usually
5,639 corpus weight
- Valensole
Valensole
5,638 corpus weight
- Valençay
Valençay
5,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Uranie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uranie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁa.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Uranie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Uranie is uncommon French at frequency #94,360 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \y.ʁa.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Uranie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Uranie, spelled U-R-A-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Muse de l’astronomie et de l’astrologie.
- 2Une des océanides, dans la mythologie grecque, selon Hésiode.
- 3(30) Uranie, internationalement (30) Urania, planète mineure.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Uranie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trissotin, à Vadius.– Avez-vous vu certain petit sonnet Sur la fièvre qui tient la princesse Uranie ?
Téthys enfanta aussi la troupe sacrée de ces nymphes qui, avec le roi Apollon et les Fleuves, élèvent sur la terre l’enfance des héros ; c’est Jupiter lui-même qui les chargea de cet emploi : Pitho, Admète, Ianthé, Électre, Doris, Prymno, Uranie semblable aux dieux, Hippo, Clymène, Rhodie, Callirhoé, Zeuxo, Clytie, Idye, Pasithoé, Plexaure, Galaxaure, l’a…
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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