urologue
\y.ʁo.lɔɡ\
The verdict
“urologue” is uncommon French (frequency #57,002 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,002
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Spécialiste des voies urinaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urologue · urologue · French
urologue · rank #57,002 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,002
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH univoque
Nearest frequency peer: univoque (-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 « urologue »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- turnover
turnover
43,003 corpus weight
- tâchons
tâchons
43,002 corpus weight
- Télémaque
Télémaque
43,001 corpus weight
- univoque
univoque
43,000 corpus weight
- urologue
urologue
42,999 corpus weight
- vagins
vagins
42,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « urologue » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urologue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁo.lɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urologue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urologue is uncommon French at frequency #57,002 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.ʁo.lɔɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Spécialiste des voies urinaires.".
urologue doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is urologue, spelled U-R-O-L-O-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Spécialiste des voies urinaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urologue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne lit quasiment plus que des ouvrages de médecine, Marc, depuis que l’urologue a détecté un germe de cancer
Vincent Hupertan, urologue, explique que le besoin d’uriner peut être « connecté à des éléments émotionnels, en cas de stress, par exemple ».
Synonyms
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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