cure

\kyʁ\

/\kyʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“cure” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,048) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#7,048
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soin, souci. — En ce sens, il est surtout usité dans l’expression : n’avoir cure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-cure · cure · French

cure · rank #7,048 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,048
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH datant

Nearest frequency peer: datant (+1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « cure »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « cure » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

cure vs Cyr
25% similar
cure vs cut
50% similar
cure vs cuve
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for cure
PropertyValue
Headwordcure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kyʁ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#7,048
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « cure »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).curese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « datant » (#7,049), « critère » (#7,046), « devise » (#7,050). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « cure » est au #7,048. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for cure is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cyr", "cut", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kyʁ\. Frequency #7,048 among 8,609 “C” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cure, with forms such as "ccure", "cuer", and "curre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cyr", "cut", "cuve", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is cure, spelled C-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Soin, souci. — En ce sens, il est surtout usité dans l’expression : n’avoir cure.
  2. 2
    Traitement des maladies, des affections graves ou chroniques.
  3. 3
    Soins dispensés dans un établissement thermal.
  4. 4
    Faire une cure de quelque chose : manger exclusivement de cette chose. Par extension, passer son temps à une activité.
  5. 5
    Demeure du curé.
  6. 6
    Fonction ecclésiastique à laquelle est attachée la direction spirituelle d’une paroisse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il connaissait Zaheira: elle était toute jeune et robuste, belle. Instruite aussi, ce dont il n’avait cure.
  2. Ce qui chiffonnait le commissaire, c’est quelle se cachât pour boire. À quoi bon, puisqu’elle n’avait pas cure de l’opinion des gens, gagner la pièce du fond pour aller prendre une rasade d’alcool ou de vin à même la bouteille ?

Synonyms

presbytèreparoisse

This word in other languages

treatment(English)cura(Español)Kur(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccure
  • cuer
  • curre
  • ucre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cure - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccure1cuer2curre1ucre2
Edit distance from "cure"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cure"?
"cure" is spelled C-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \kyʁ\.
What does "cure" mean?
As a noun, "cure" means: Soin, souci. — En ce sens, il est surtout usité dans l’expression : n’avoir cure.
What words are commonly confused with "cure"?
"cure" is commonly confused with "Cyr", "cut", "cuve". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "cure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cure" is \kyʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cure" come from?
"cure" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cure", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

buzz#7,035âgés#7,016tien#7,007pack#7,095

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list