uru
\u.ʁu\
The verdict
“uru” is uncommon French (frequency #94,361 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,361
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit à pain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-uru · uru · French
uru · rank #94,361 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,361
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH Uranie
Nearest frequency peer: Uranie (-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 « uru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ultimatums
ultimatums
5,643 corpus weight
- Uranie
Uranie
5,641 corpus weight
- uru
uru
5,640 corpus weight
- usually
usually
5,639 corpus weight
- Valensole
Valensole
5,638 corpus weight
- Valençay
Valençay
5,637 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « uru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \u.ʁu\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #94,361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « uru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
uru is uncommon French at frequency #94,361 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \u.ʁu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit à pain.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for uru, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is uru, spelled U-R-U.
Definition
- 1Fruit à pain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how uru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dimanche, au déjeuner, nous avons mangé un des plats traditionnels de la Polynésie : un uru cuit sur la braise.
Les fruits poussent à profusion à terre, et nous nous voyons offrir par les habitants des urus (fruit de l’arbre à pain), citrons, pamplemousses, et mangues.
Synonyms
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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