urge
\yʁʒ\
The verdict
“urge” is uncommon French (frequency #59,002 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,002
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de urger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urge · urge · French
urge · rank #59,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,002
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH umm
Nearest frequency peer: umm (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « urge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- trouées
trouées
41,003 corpus weight
- téléchargea…
téléchargeables
41,002 corpus weight
- umm
umm
41,000 corpus weight
- urge
urge
40,999 corpus weight
- utiliseraie…
utiliseraient
40,998 corpus weight
- vader
vader
40,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \yʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #59,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urge is uncommon French at frequency #59,002 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \yʁʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for urge, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 urge, spelled U-R-G-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de urger.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de urger.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de urger.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de urger.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de urger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how urge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il urge que nos artistes et scénaristes se décompétitionnent et inventent des HÉROS Fraternels qui gagnent sans combat et dans l'écoute, la douceur et le respect....
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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