Uriage

name

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The verdict

“Uriage” is uncommon French (frequency #76,199 among 44,794 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,199
frequency rank, French
44,794
“U” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom bref d'Uriage-les-Bains, commune française située dans le département de l'Isère.

Key facts for Uriage
PropertyValue
HeadwordUriage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#76,199
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Uriage” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Uriage lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Uriage is uncommon French at frequency #76,199 among 44,794 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom bref d'Uriage-les-Bains, commune française située dans le département de l'Isère.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Uriage, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Uriage, spelled U-R-I-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom bref d'Uriage-les-Bains, commune française située dans le département de l'Isère.

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 "Uriage"?
"Uriage" is spelled U-R-I-A-G-E.
What does "Uriage" mean?
As a proper noun, "Uriage" means: Nom bref d'Uriage-les-Bains, commune française située dans le département de l'Isère.
What language does "Uriage" come from?
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Using “Uriage”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is U-R-I-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list