urbanisé
\yʁ.ba.ni.ze\
The verdict
“urbanisé” is uncommon French (frequency #80,748 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,748
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Transformé en ville.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urbanise · urbanisé · French
urbanisé · rank #80,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,748
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Uriel
Nearest frequency peer: Uriel (+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 « urbanisé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- télépathique
télépathique
19,258 corpus weight
- télésurveil…
télésurveillance
19,257 corpus weight
- urbanisé
urbanisé
19,253 corpus weight
- Uriel
Uriel
19,252 corpus weight
- usait
usait
19,251 corpus weight
- usez
usez
19,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urbanisé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urbanisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \yʁ.ba.ni.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urbanisé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urbanisé is uncommon French at frequency #80,748 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \yʁ.ba.ni.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for urbanisé, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is urbanisé, spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Transformé en ville.
- 2Qui est de la ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how urbanisé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Durkheim lui-même était gêné par le taux de suicide extrêmement bas de l'Angleterre du XIXᵉ siècle. Une application rigide de son modèle explicatif ferait s'attendre pour cette masse exceptionnellement urbanisée qu'était le Royaume-Uni entre 1850 et 1900, à des taux d’autodestruction élevés. Or il n'en était rien.
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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