urgences

\yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\

/\yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“urgences” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,351. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,351
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service hospitalier accueillant les personnes nécessitant des soins immédiats.

Corpus desk

Index FR-urgences · urgences · French

urgences · rank #6,351 · 12 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,351
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH trahison

Nearest frequency peer: trahison (-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 « urgences »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « urgences » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

urgences vs urgente
75% similar
urgences vs urgents
75% similar
urgences vs urgentes
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for urgences
PropertyValue
Headwordurgences
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,351
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urgences »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).urgencesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « trahison » (#6,350), « usagers » (#6,352), « tenus » (#6,348). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « urgences » est au #6,351. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around urgences (IPA \yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,351 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Service hospitalier accueillant les personnes nécessitant des soins immédiats.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for urgences, with forms such as "rugences", "ugrences", and "uregnces". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "urgente", "urgents", "urgentes", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is urgences, spelled U-R-G-E-N-C-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Service hospitalier accueillant les personnes nécessitant des soins immédiats.

This word in other languages

A&E(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rugences
  • ugrences
  • uregnces
  • urgecnes
  • urgencces
  • urgencess
  • urgencse
  • urgenecs
  • urgennces
  • urggences
  • urgneces
  • urrgences

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urgences - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

rugences2ugrences2uregnces2urgecnes2urgencces1urgencess1urgencse2urgenecs2
Edit distance from "urgences"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "urgences"?
"urgences" is spelled U-R-G-E-N-C-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\.
What does "urgences" mean?
As a noun, "urgences" means: Service hospitalier accueillant les personnes nécessitant des soins immédiats.
What words are commonly confused with "urgences"?
"urgences" is commonly confused with "urgente", "urgents", "urgentes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urgences"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urgences" is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urgences" come from?
"urgences" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "urgences", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

trahison#6,350respirer#6,340prudence#6,335pourriez#6,333

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

rattraper12 variantsplaintes12 variantsnouveauté12 variantsmaquillage12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list