Which to use
“urgente” and “urgentes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,585
- “urgente” frequency rank
- #27,279
- “urgentes” frequency rank
- 44864
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | urgente | urgentes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de urgent. | Féminin pluriel de urgent. |
Same sound, different letters: urgente vs urgentes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. urgente runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against urgentes's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: urgente vs urgentes
This is the hard kind. urgente and urgentes are pronounced identically (\yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “urgente” sits inside “urgentes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44864, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
urgente is recorded at frequency rank #17,585, classified as anadj, pronounced \yʁ.ʒɑ̃t\. urgentes is at rank #27,279, 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 44864, this pair ranks #207,208 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of urgente vs urgentes
Shared letters: egnrtu. Private to "urgente": -. Private to "urgentes": s.
"urgente" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "urgentes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "urgente" for "urgentes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "urgente" vs "urgentes" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
"urgente" and "urgentes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "urgente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "urgentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #207,208 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "urgente" and "urgentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "urgentes vs urgents". 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 #207,208 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.