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procure

/pɹəˈkjʊɹ/verb

procure is spelled P-R-O-C-U-R-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, procure means “To acquire or obtain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in procure?

Letters7: P-R-O-C-U-R-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 23,536th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is procure?

Procure appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,536th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce procure?

  • UK /pɹəˈkjʊə/
  • UK /pɹəˈkjɔː/
  • US /pɹəˈkjʊɹ/

Procure has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-procure.ogg, En-au-procure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with procure

Also written: pro-cure (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with procure?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as procure from its last stressed vowel (/ʊɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of procure

  • procures present, singular, he/she/it
  • procuring participle, present
  • procured participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does procure mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To acquire or obtain.

  2. 2

    To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.

  3. 3

    To induce or persuade someone to do something.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo solicit; to entreat.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo cause to come; to bring; to attract.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Procure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchacquérir, obtenir (to acquire or obtain an item or service), proxénétisme (to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody…)
Germanbeschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen, verschaffen, beibringen (to acquire or obtain an item or service)
Portugueseobter, conseguir (to acquire or obtain an item or service)
Spanishprocurar (to acquire or obtain an item or service)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does procure come from?

From Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“to care for”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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