Urville
\yʁ.vil\
The verdict
“Urville” is uncommon French (frequency #59,704 among 456 “U” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,704
- frequency rank, French
- 456
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aube.
Corpus desk
Index FR-urville · Urville · French
Urville · rank #59,704 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,704
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 456
- PHOTO-FINISH urgentistes
Nearest frequency peer: urgentistes (-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 « Urville »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- undertaker
undertaker
40,301 corpus weight
- Unicode
Unicode
40,300 corpus weight
- urbanistique
urbanistique
40,299 corpus weight
- urgentistes
urgentistes
40,298 corpus weight
- Urville
Urville
40,297 corpus weight
- vaccinée
vaccinée
40,294 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Urville » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Urville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \yʁ.vil\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Urville » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Urville is uncommon French at frequency #59,704 among 456 “U” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \yʁ.vil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Urville, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Urville, spelled U-R-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aube.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département du Calvados.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Manche.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département des Vosges.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Urville appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après avoir traversé Urville, garez-vous au lieu-dit Landemer et entamez une marche jusqu’au petit port d’Omonville-la-Rogue.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).