cuire
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,947
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cuire is aFrenchverb. It means: Préparer les aliments par le moyen du feu, de la chaleur, pour les rendre propres à être mangés. Devenir propre à être mangé ou propre à tel ou tel usage par le moyen du feu, de la chaleur. Pronounced \kɥiʁ\. It ranks #7,947 in French word frequency. Often confused with cure and cuit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɥiʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,947 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cuire is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɥiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,947 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cuire, with forms such as "ccuire", "ciure", and "cuier". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cure", "cuit", "cuve", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cuire, spelled C-U-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préparer les aliments par le moyen du feu, de la chaleur, pour les rendre propres à être mangés. Devenir propre à être mangé ou propre à tel ou tel usage par le moyen du feu, de la chaleur.
- 2Cuire du pain.
- 3Bouillir ou faire bouillir.
- 4Chauffer certaines choses pour les rendre propres à l’usage qu’on en veut faire.
- 5Transformer par la chaleur selon les effets souhaités ; antonyme : bruler.
- 6Mûrir.
- 7Causer une douleur âpre et aiguë, comme celle que fait éprouver une brûlure ou une écorchure.
- 8Nuire, causer un dommage, une vive douleur.
- 9Coaguler en parlant de jaunes d’œufs que l’on fait blanchir sans avoir pris soin de les fouetter énergiquement.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccuire,ciure,cuier,cuirre,ucire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cuire
Misspelling Variants of "cuire"
Frequency rank: #7,947 in French
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