diff --git a/werkzeug/wrappers.py b/werkzeug/wrappers.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/werkzeug/wrappers.py
+++ b/werkzeug/wrappers.py
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ class BaseRequest(object):
 
     @cached_property
     def url(self):
-        """The reconstructed current URL"""
+        """The reconstructed current URL as IRI."""
         return get_current_url(self.environ,
                                trusted_hosts=self.trusted_hosts)
 
@@ -562,13 +562,15 @@ class BaseRequest(object):
 
     @cached_property
     def url_root(self):
-        """The full URL root (with hostname), this is the application root."""
+        """The full URL root (with hostname), this is the application
+        root as IRI.
+        """
         return get_current_url(self.environ, True,
                                trusted_hosts=self.trusted_hosts)
 
     @cached_property
     def host_url(self):
-        """Just the host with scheme."""
+        """Just the host with scheme as IRI."""
         return get_current_url(self.environ, host_only=True,
                                trusted_hosts=self.trusted_hosts)
Documented URLs being IRIs in wrappers.