curer
\ky.ʁe\
The verdict
“curer” is uncommon French (frequency #67,418 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,418
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débarrasser quelque chose de creux de la vase, des immondices, des ordures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-curer · curer · French
curer · rank #67,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,418
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cultivez
Nearest frequency peer: cultivez (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « curer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cultivez
cultivez
32,584 corpus weight
- curer
curer
32,583 corpus weight
- câpres
câpres
32,582 corpus weight
- céans
céans
32,581 corpus weight
- célébrez
célébrez
32,580 corpus weight
- D6
D6
32,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « curer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | curer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ky.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « curer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
curer is uncommon French at frequency #67,418 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ky.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Débarrasser quelque chose de creux de la vase, des immondices, des ordures.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for curer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is curer, spelled C-U-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Débarrasser quelque chose de creux de la vase, des immondices, des ordures.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how curer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Curer un fossé, les fossés.
Curer un canal, un port.
This word in other languages
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.
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