urètre
\y.ʁɛtʁ\
The verdict
“urètre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,247. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,247
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Canal par où sort l’urine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uretre · urètre · French
urètre · rank #48,247 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #48,247
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH upa
Nearest frequency peer: upa (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « urètre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- tyrolienne
tyrolienne
51,757 corpus weight
- ténue
ténue
51,756 corpus weight
- upa
upa
51,755 corpus weight
- urètre
urètre
51,754 corpus weight
- users
users
51,753 corpus weight
- Vaillancourt
Vaillancourt
51,751 corpus weight
What this shows « urètre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urètre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around urètre (IPA \y.ʁɛtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,247 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 urètre, spelled U-R-È-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Canal par où sort l’urine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urètre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un prostatique léger, son infirmité ne lui occasionne pas d’autres ennuis que d’être obligé, une quinzaine de fois l’an, de recourir à nous pour cathétériser son urètre obturé.
En 1997, après plusieurs voyages au Nord, il est conduit à la Maison d’hôtes Paekhwawon de Pyongyang, où Kim Jong-il travaille de nuit comme à l’accoutumée, pour un rendez-vous de 30 minutes avec le leader lui-même. Il a un magnétophone caché dans l’urètre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ruètre
- uretre
- urrètre
- urtère
- urèrte
- urèter
- urètrre
- urèttre
- uèrtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urètre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "urètre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).