uretère
\yʁ.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“uretère” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacun des deux canaux qui transportent l’urine des reins à la vessie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uretere · uretère · French
uretère · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uretère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yʁ.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uretère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uretère is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \yʁ.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chacun des deux canaux qui transportent l’urine des reins à la vessie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for uretère, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, 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 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 uretère, spelled U-R-E-T-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Chacun des deux canaux qui transportent l’urine des reins à la vessie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how uretère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’urographie intraveineuse montrait, de son côté, une dilatation de l’uretère, le non-fonctionnement du rein droit cependant que la radiographie du thorax révélait des métastases circutuelles…
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.