Uriel
\y.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“Uriel” is uncommon French (frequency #80,749 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,749
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des archanges.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uriel · Uriel · French
Uriel · rank #80,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,749
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urbanisé
Nearest frequency peer: urbanisé (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Uriel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- télésurveil…
télésurveillance
19,257 corpus weight
- urbanisé
urbanisé
19,253 corpus weight
- Uriel
Uriel
19,252 corpus weight
- usait
usait
19,251 corpus weight
- usez
usez
19,250 corpus weight
- valorisatio…
valorisations
19,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Uriel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Uriel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Uriel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Uriel is uncommon French at frequency #80,749 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \y.ʁjɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des archanges.".
Uriel has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Uriel, spelled U-R-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Un des archanges.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Uriel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gabriel, Michel, Raphaël et Uriel président aux quatre points cardinaux.
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.
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