urne
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,765
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
urne is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vase de forme et de capacité variables qui, chez les anciens, servait à divers usages. Pronounced \yʁn\. Often confused with usé and urs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \yʁn\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #16,765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for urne is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yʁn\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,765 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for urne, with forms such as "unre", "uren", and "urnne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "usé", "urs", "œuvre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is urne, spelled U-R-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vase de forme et de capacité variables qui, chez les anciens, servait à divers usages.
- 2Vases de porcelaine, de faïence ou d’autre matière, qui ont la forme des urnes antiques.
- 3Contenant destiné à recevoir des bulletins de vote. → voir urne électorale.
- 4Chez les mousses, organe contenant les spores et qui forme avec le filament qui le soutient le sporophyte. → voir capsule.
- 5Chez certaines plantes carnivores, feuille spécialisée formant une cavité destinée à piéger des insectes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: unre,uren,urnne,urrne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for urne
Misspelling Variants of "urne"
Frequency rank: #16,765 in French
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