urgente

/\yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#17,585

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

urgente is anFrenchadj. It means: Féminin singulier de urgent. Pronounced \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\. Often confused with urgents and urgentes.

Key facts for urgente
PropertyValue
Headwordurgente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,585
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of urgente in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for urgente is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,585 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Féminin singulier de urgent.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for urgente, with forms such as "rugente", "ugrente", and "uregnte". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "urgents", "urgentes", "urgent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is urgente, spelled U-R-G-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de urgent.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: rugente,ugrente,uregnte,urgenet,urgennte,urgentte,urgetne,urggente,urgnete,urrgente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urgente

Misspelling Variants of "urgente"

rugente7ugrente7uregnte7urgenet7urgennte8urgentte8urgetne7urggente8
Misspelling Variants of "urgente"

Frequency rank: #17,585 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "urgente"?
"urgente" is spelled U-R-G-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\.
What does "urgente" mean?
As an adj, "urgente" means: Féminin singulier de urgent.
What words are commonly confused with "urgente"?
"urgente" is commonly confused with "urgents", "urgentes", "urgent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urgente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urgente" is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urgente" come from?
"urgente" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.