urètre

/\y.ʁɛtʁ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for urètre
PropertyValue
Headwordurètre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\y.ʁɛtʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#48,247
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of urètre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Canal par où sort l’urine.

This word in other languages

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"

ruètre6uretre6urrètre7urtère6urèrte6urèter6urètrre7urèttre7
Misspelling Variants of "urètre"

Frequency rank: #48,247 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "urètre"?
"urètre" is spelled U-R-È-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \y.ʁɛtʁ\.
What does "urètre" mean?
As a noun, "urètre" means: Canal par où sort l’urine.
What words are commonly confused with "urètre"?
"urètre" is commonly confused with "urée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urètre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urètre" is \y.ʁɛtʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urètre" come from?
"urètre" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.