injure
French, noun/ɛ̃.ʒyʁ/
injure is spelled I-N-J-U-R-E (6 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,241st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Injure is a French feminine noun meaning “offense, insult” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Insulte, outrage, ou de fait, ou de parole, ou par écrit”.
What does injure mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineoffense, insult
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Insulte, outrage, ou de fait, ou de parole, ou par écrit. 2. Parole offensante, outrageante. 3. Dégradation, la ruine, la perte de certaines choses par l’effet des intempéries, de la durée, de l’âge.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of injure
- injures plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce injure?
- /ɛ̃.ʒyʁ/
- \ɛ̃.ʒyʁ\
- [ɛ̃.ʒyʁ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to injure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is injure in French?
injure appears 2.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).