urique
\y.ʁik\
The verdict
“urique” is uncommon French (frequency #69,511 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,511
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie l’acide qui existe à l’état normal en faible proportion dans l’urine humaine et qui forme la plupart des calculs de la vessie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urique · urique · French
urique · rank #69,511 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,511
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Uppsala
Nearest frequency peer: Uppsala (-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 « urique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- témoignaient
témoignaient
30,494 corpus weight
- unilingues
unilingues
30,492 corpus weight
- Uppsala
Uppsala
30,491 corpus weight
- urique
urique
30,490 corpus weight
- vacuum
vacuum
30,489 corpus weight
- Valentinois
Valentinois
30,488 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \y.ʁik\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urique is uncommon French at frequency #69,511 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \y.ʁik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for urique, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is urique, spelled U-R-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie l’acide qui existe à l’état normal en faible proportion dans l’urine humaine et qui forme la plupart des calculs de la vessie.
- 2Relatif à l'acide urique dans l'organisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec les tubes de Malpighi, l’iléum et le rectum constituent le système excréteur de l'insecte, excrétant entre autres les urates et l’acide urique.
Mais les déviations des processus de la nutrition font-elles pareillement varier les proportions relatives de l'urée et de l’acide urique dérivant de la combustion des tissus ? et existe-t-il de ce chef une véritable dyscrasie urique?
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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