Which to use
“urgent” and “urgente” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,144
- “urgent” frequency rank
- #17,585
- “urgente” frequency rank
- 23729
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | urgent | urgente |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est pressant, qui ne souffre aucun retard. | Féminin singulier de urgent. |
Where the eye mixes urgent and urgente
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. urgent runs 6 letters (VCCVCC) against urgente's 7 (VCCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: urgent vs urgente
A purely visual mix-up. urgent (\yʁ.ʒɑ̃\) and urgente (\yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “urgent” sits inside “urgente”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23729, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
urgent is recorded at frequency rank #6,144, classified as anadj, pronounced \yʁ.ʒɑ̃\. urgente is at rank #17,585, tagged as anadj, pronounced \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 23729, this pair ranks #350,794 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of urgent vs urgente
Shared letters: egnrtu. Private to "urgent": -. Private to "urgente": -.
"urgent" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC · "urgente" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "urgent" and "urgente" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "urgent" or "urgente" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "urgent" and "urgente" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "urgent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "urgente" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #350,794 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "urgent" and "urgente" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "urgent vs œuvrent". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #350,794 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.