urgents

\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\

/\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“urgents” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,651. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#27,651
frequency rank, French
456
“U” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel d’urgent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-urgents · urgents · French

urgents · rank #27,651 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #27,651
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 456
  • PHOTO-FINISH unifiée

Nearest frequency peer: unifiée (-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 « urgents »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « urgents » 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).

urgents vs urgent
86% similar
urgents vs urgence
71% similar
urgents vs urgente
86% similar

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

Key facts for urgents
PropertyValue
Headwordurgents
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,651
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urgents »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).urgentsse 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 « unifiée » (#27,650), « valorisant » (#27,652), « ultérieur » (#27,649). Parmi 456 lemmes en « U », « urgents » est au #27,651. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around urgents (IPA \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,651 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel d’urgent.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for urgents, with forms such as "rugents", "ugrents", and "uregnts". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "urgent", "urgence", "urgente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is urgents, spelled U-R-G-E-N-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel d’urgent.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how urgents 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.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rugents
  • ugrents
  • uregnts
  • urgennts
  • urgenst
  • urgentss
  • urgentts
  • urgetns
  • urggents
  • urgnets
  • urrgents

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

rugents2ugrents2uregnts2urgennts1urgenst2urgentss1urgentts1urgetns2
Edit distance from "urgents"

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 "urgents"?
"urgents" is spelled U-R-G-E-N-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\.
What does "urgents" mean?
As an adjective, "urgents" means: Masculin pluriel d’urgent.
What words are commonly confused with "urgents"?
"urgents" is commonly confused with "urgent", "urgence", "urgente". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "urgents"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "urgents" is \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "urgents" come from?
"urgents" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "urgents", 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 (11 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list