urgent

\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\

/\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\/ adj

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The verdict

“urgent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,144. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,144
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-urgent · urgent · French

urgent · rank #6,144 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,144
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH territoriale

Nearest frequency peer: territoriale (-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 « urgent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « urgent » 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).

urgent vs usent
67% similar
urgent vs œuvrent
57% similar
urgent vs urgente
86% similar

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

Key facts for urgent
PropertyValue
Headwordurgent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#6,144
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urgent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.urgentse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « territoriale » (#6,143), « Vancouver » (#6,145), « séminaire » (#6,142). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « urgent » est au #6,144. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around urgent (IPA \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,144 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for urgent, with forms such as "rugent", "ugrent", and "uregnt". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "usent", "œuvrent", "urgente", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 urgent, spelled U-R-G-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how urgent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le coulage consiste à faire faire des travaux qui ne sont pas urgents ou nécessaires, à dégalonner et regalonner les troupes, à commander des vaisseaux sans s’inquiéter s’il y a du bois et de payer alors le bois trop cher, à se préparer à la guerre sans la faire, à payer les dettes d’un État sans lui en demander le remboursement ou des garanties, etc.
  2. Dans ce contexte, il n'est pas étonnant de constater que quatre Français sur cinq (80 %, +4 points depuis octobre) estiment désormais « qu'il est urgent de réduire la dette publique en France ».

This word in other languages

urgent(English)urgente(Español)dringend(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rugent
  • ugrent
  • uregnt
  • urgennt
  • urgentt
  • urgetn
  • urggent
  • urgnet
  • urrgent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urgent - 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.

rugent2ugrent2uregnt2urgennt1urgentt1urgetn2urggent1urgnet2
Edit distance from "urgent"

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 "urgent"?
"urgent" is spelled U-R-G-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\.
What does "urgent" mean?
As an adjective, "urgent" means: Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard.
What words are commonly confused with "urgent"?
"urgent" is commonly confused with "usent", "œuvrent", "urgente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urgent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urgent" is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urgent" come from?
"urgent" 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 "urgent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

éteint#6,153évolue#6,155pouces#6,126plages#6,125

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

saurait9 variantscomique9 variantscompare9 variantsmarbre9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list