urgent
French, adjective/yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
urgent is spelled U-R-G-E-N-T (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written French, the 6,071st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Urgent is a French adjective meaning “urgent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard”.
What does urgent mean in English?
adjective
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urgent
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of urgent
- urgente feminine
- urgents masculine plural
- urgentes feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce urgent?
- /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/
- \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\
- [yʁ.ʒɑ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to urgent
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is urgent in French?
urgent appears 11 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).