urée
\y.ʁe\
The verdict
“urée” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,849) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,849
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Substance cristallisable, incolore, de formule chimique COH₄N₂, dont la présence caractérise l’urine de la plupart des animaux dont l’homme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uree · urée · French
urée · rank #48,849 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,849
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Vallauris
Nearest frequency peer: Vallauris (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « urée »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- télescopique
télescopique
51,154 corpus weight
- urée
urée
51,152 corpus weight
- Vallauris
Vallauris
51,151 corpus weight
- valorisent
valorisent
51,150 corpus weight
- valorisées
valorisées
51,149 corpus weight
- Valparaiso
Valparaiso
51,148 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « urée » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | urée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,849 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « urée »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for urée is neighbouring look-alikes ("URL", "usé", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \y.ʁe\. Frequency #48,849 among 456 “U” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for urée, with forms such as "uree", "ureé", and "urrée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "URL", "usé", "urs", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is urée, spelled U-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Substance cristallisable, incolore, de formule chimique COH₄N₂, dont la présence caractérise l’urine de la plupart des animaux dont l’homme.
- 2Solution de ce corps dans l’eau à usage alimentaire dans certaines techniques d’élevage des bovins.
- 3Poudre ou granulés de ce corps à usage d’engrais azoté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le rein est le principal organe excréteur de l’organisme et il élimine les déchets d'origine métabolique. Le plus important déchet du métabolisme des protéines est l’urée.
Qui peut sans rire prétendre savoir comment finira le projet de « fertiliser les océans avec du fer ou de l’urée pour favoriser la croissance du phytoplancton, grand consommateur de dioxyde de carbone » ?
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- uree
- ureé
- urrée
- uére
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "urée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).