urinoir
\y.ʁi.nwaʁ\
The verdict
“urinoir” is uncommon French (frequency #61,963 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,963
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Local disposé sur la voie publique, dans les gares, etc., pour uriner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urinoir · urinoir · French
urinoir · rank #61,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,963
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH UNR
Nearest frequency peer: UNR (-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 « urinoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- unissez
unissez
38,040 corpus weight
- UNR
UNR
38,039 corpus weight
- urinoir
urinoir
38,038 corpus weight
- utopiques
utopiques
38,037 corpus weight
- vade
vade
38,036 corpus weight
- vaincues
vaincues
38,035 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urinoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urinoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁi.nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urinoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urinoir is uncommon French at frequency #61,963 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.ʁi.nwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for urinoir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is urinoir, spelled U-R-I-N-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Local disposé sur la voie publique, dans les gares, etc., pour uriner.
- 2Appareil sanitaire dans lequel les hommes et garçons urinent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urinoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me souviens qu’un jour à Paris, un Américain m’avait bien étonné en me parlant des « Picon ». Il croyait que c’était là le nom des urinoirs parce qu’à l’époque de grosses affiches publicitaires Picon ornaient ces édicules.
De la même façon, le Tribunal des conflits eut à régler une affaire dans laquelle un maire avait fait enlever la grille en fer forgé entourant une église, afin d’installer un urinoir public contre l’édifice.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).