Urbino

name

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The verdict

“Urbino” is uncommon French (frequency #79,831 among 44,794 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,831
frequency rank, French
44,794
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune d’Italie de la province de Pesaro et Urbino dans la région des Marches.

Key facts for Urbino
PropertyValue
HeadwordUrbino
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#79,831
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Urbino” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Urbino lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Urbino is uncommon French at frequency #79,831 among 44,794 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune d’Italie de la province de Pesaro et Urbino dans la région des Marches.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Urbino, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Urbino, spelled U-R-B-I-N-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Commune d’Italie de la province de Pesaro et Urbino dans la région des Marches.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Urbino"?
"Urbino" is spelled U-R-B-I-N-O.
What does "Urbino" mean?
As a proper noun, "Urbino" means: Commune d’Italie de la province de Pesaro et Urbino dans la région des Marches.
What language does "Urbino" come from?
"Urbino" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Urbino”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is U-R-B-I-N-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list