urètre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#48,247
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
urètre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Canal par où sort l’urine. Pronounced \y.ʁɛtʁ\. Often confused with urée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urètre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁɛtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #48,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for urètre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ʁɛtʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,247 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Canal par où sort l’urine.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for urètre, with forms such as "ruètre", "uretre", and "urrètre". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "urée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is urètre, spelled U-R-È-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Canal par où sort l’urine.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ruètre,uretre,urrètre,urtère,urèrte,urèter,urètrre,urèttre,uèrtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urètre
Misspelling Variants of "urètre"
Frequency rank: #48,247 in French
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