épure
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#50,602
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
épure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Dessin à l’échelle réelle d’une construction tracé sur une muraille, ou, plus généralement, sur un plancher ou sur une aire horizontale. Pronounced \e.pyʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | épure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for épure is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.pyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #50,602 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for épure in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 épure, spelled É-P-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dessin à l’échelle réelle d’une construction tracé sur une muraille, ou, plus généralement, sur un plancher ou sur une aire horizontale.
- 2Représentation, projetée sur un ou plusieurs plans à l’échelle réduite, d’un volume.
- 3Dessin au trait qui représente sur un plan l’ensemble des proportions des différents points ou lignes d’une figure.
- 4Traits généraux d’une œuvre ou d’une pensée.
- 5Représentation simpliste.
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Frequency rank: #50,602 in French
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