urus
\y.ʁys\
The verdict
“urus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aurochs, taureau sauvage, à présent disparu et ancêtre des bovinés actuels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urus · urus · French
urus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ʁys\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « urus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
urus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \y.ʁys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Aurochs, taureau sauvage, à présent disparu et ancêtre des bovinés actuels.".
urus has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is urus, spelled U-R-U-S.
Definition
- 1Aurochs, taureau sauvage, à présent disparu et ancêtre des bovinés actuels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how urus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
- Fort curieuse légende, m'écriai-je ; mais, monsieur le comte, vous parlez de l'urus ; ce noble animal que César a décrit dans ses Commentaires, et que les rois mérovingiens chassaient dans la forêt de Compiègne, existe-t-il réellement encore en Lithuanie, ainsi que je l'ai ouï dire ?
Dans le wagon où nous nous empilâmes, la conversation — si tant est qu'on puisse appeler conversation un tel échange de cris discords, qui rappelaient ceux de l’urus, du cerf élaphe, de l’ours brun et du lœmmergejer, — en vint sur les braconniers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.