jurer
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,663
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jurer is aFrenchverb. It means: Affirmer par serment, en prenant un dieu, ou quelqu’un, ou quelque chose à témoin. Pronounced \ʒy.ʁe\. Often confused with jury and jute.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jurer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒy.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for jurer is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒy.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,663 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for jurer, with forms such as "jjurer", "jruer", and "juerr". 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, "jury", "jute", "jurez", 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 jurer, spelled J-U-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Affirmer par serment, en prenant un dieu, ou quelqu’un, ou quelque chose à témoin.
- 2Confirmer, ratifier une chose par serment ; s’engager par serment à quelque chose.
- 3Assurer ou certifier une chose.
- 4Blasphémer.
- 5Proférer des grossièretés.
- 6Promettre fortement, quand même ce serait sans serment.
- 7Résoudre fermement une chose.
- 8Être choquant, en parlant de l’union ou du rapprochement de deux choses.
- 9Rendre un son discordant.
- 10Insulter.
- 11Croire sur des apparences
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjurer,jruer,juerr,jurerr,jurre,jurrer,ujrer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "jurer"
Frequency rank: #15,663 in French
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Nearby French words
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