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parlure

French, noun/paʁ.lyʁ/

parlure is spelled P-A-R-L-U-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written French, the 166,446th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Parlure is a French feminine noun meaning “parlance, turn of phrase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “ou Tournures langagières”.

What does parlure mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineparlance, turn of phrase

  2. 2

    femininesociolect

  3. 3

    femininelanguage, talk

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ou Tournures langagières. 2. Moyen d’expressions et tournure propre à un groupe social.

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 parlure

  • parlures plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce parlure?

  • /paʁ.lyʁ/
  • /parlyr/
  • \paʁ.lyʁ\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is parlure in French?

parlure appears about once in every 27 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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