urine
\y.ʁin\
The verdict
“urine” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,081. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,081
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide dû à la filtration du sang par les reins et conduit par les uretères dans la vessie, puis évacué par le canal de l’urètre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urine · urine · French
urine · rank #12,081 · 6 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,081
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH téléphonie
Nearest frequency peer: téléphonie (-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 « urine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- trinité
trinité
87,923 corpus weight
- trésorerie
trésorerie
87,922 corpus weight
- téléphonie
téléphonie
87,921 corpus weight
- urine
urine
87,920 corpus weight
- valoriser
valoriser
87,919 corpus weight
- varié
varié
87,918 corpus weight
What this shows « urine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁin\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,081 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « urine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around urine (IPA \y.ʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,081 among 456 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Liquide dû à la filtration du sang par les reins et conduit par les uretères dans la vessie, puis évacué par le canal de l’urètre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for urine, with forms such as "ruine", "uirne", and "urien". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "urne", "utile", "usine", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is urine, spelled U-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Liquide dû à la filtration du sang par les reins et conduit par les uretères dans la vessie, puis évacué par le canal de l’urètre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il leur suffisait […] de passer la main sur le dos d’une vache pour que le lait tournât en urine.
La sérine du sang ressemble beaucoup à l’albumine de l’œuf; elle constitue également l’albumine pathologique des urines.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ruine
- uirne
- urien
- urinne
- urnie
- urrine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).