urgence
\yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\
The verdict
“urgence” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,793. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,793
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est urgent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urgence · urgence · French
urgence · rank #1,793 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,793
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH TV
Nearest frequency peer: TV (-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 « urgence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Thomas
Thomas
98,210 corpus weight
- TV
TV
98,209 corpus weight
- urgence
urgence
98,208 corpus weight
- vécu
vécu
98,207 corpus weight
- you
you
98,206 corpus weight
- élève
élève
98,205 corpus weight
What this shows « urgence » 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 | urgence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urgence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around urgence (IPA \yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,793 among 456 “U” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for urgence, with forms such as "rugence", "ugrence", and "uregnce". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "urgent", "urgente", "urgents", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is urgence, spelled U-R-G-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est urgent.
- 2Service hospitalier qui traite les cas les plus urgents.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urgence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ainsi, seuls, en médecine d’urgence, les masques permettent une administration d’oxygène efficace : […].
Le génie de la Résistance, c'est d'avoir su conjoindre, face à une même urgence historique, toutes les forces spirituelles de ce pays.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rugence
- ugrence
- uregnce
- urgecne
- urgencce
- urgenec
- urgennce
- urggence
- urgnece
- urrgence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urgence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "urgence", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).