urbanité
\yʁ.ba.ni.te\
The verdict
“urbanité” is uncommon French (frequency #68,717 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,717
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Politesse, affabilité que donne l’usage du monde.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urbanite · urbanité · French
urbanité · rank #68,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,717
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Ubaye
Nearest frequency peer: Ubaye (-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 « urbanité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Tycho
Tycho
31,287 corpus weight
- tâtonnements
tâtonnements
31,286 corpus weight
- Ubaye
Ubaye
31,285 corpus weight
- urbanité
urbanité
31,284 corpus weight
- urgemment
urgemment
31,283 corpus weight
- ursus
ursus
31,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urbanité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urbanité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yʁ.ba.ni.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urbanité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urbanité is uncommon French at frequency #68,717 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \yʁ.ba.ni.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for urbanité, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is urbanité, spelled U-R-B-A-N-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Politesse, affabilité que donne l’usage du monde.
- 2Fait de vivre en ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urbanité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’âme de Lucien était aigrie. Tout y contribuait : la laideur de la ville, l’aspect des cafés sales et remplis d’officiers portant le même habit que lui ; et parmi tant de figures, pas une seule qui montrât, je ne dirai pas de la bienveillance, mais tout simplement cette urbanité que l’on voit à Paris chez tout le monde.
Tout en étant familiers, les gens du peuple eux-mêmes, les paysans et les gredins sans aveu sont entre eux d’une urbanité exquise bien différente de la grossièreté de notre canaille ; il est vrai qu’un coup de couteau pourrait suivre un mot blessant, ce qui donne beaucoup de circonspection aux interlocuteurs.
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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