Which to use
“URL” and “urne” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,874
- “URL” frequency rank
- #16,765
- “urne” frequency rank
- 28639
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | URL | urne |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Adresse d’une ressource Internet comme une page web par exemple, souvent confondue avec l’URI. | Vase de forme et de capacité variables qui, chez les anciens, servait à divers usages. |
Where the eye mixes URL and urne
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: URL vs urne
A purely visual mix-up. URL (\y.ɛ.ʁ‿ɛl\) and urne (\yʁn\) 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28639, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
URL is recorded at frequency rank #11,874, classified as anoun, pronounced \y.ɛ.ʁ‿ɛl\. urne is at rank #16,765, tagged as anoun, pronounced \yʁn\.
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 28639, this pair ranks #321,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of URL vs urne
Shared letters: ru. Private to "URL": l. Private to "urne": en.
"URL" · 3 letters · shape VCC · "urne" · 4 letters · shape VCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- urne ← unre · uren · urnne · urrne
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "URL" and "urne" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "URL" or "urne" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "URL" and "urne" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "URL" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "urne" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #321,573 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "URL" and "urne" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "urée vs urne". 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 #321,573 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.