urgent
/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.15 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of people: insistent, solicitous.
Example Sentences
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
- British English: /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
Inflected Forms
more urgent (comparative)
most urgent (superlative)