parure
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,107
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
parure is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ornement, ajustement, ce qui sert à parer. Pronounced \pa.ʁyʁ\. Often confused with pure and pause.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | parure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for parure is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,107 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 parure, with forms such as "aprure", "parrure", and "paruer". 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, "pure", "pause", "paume", 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 parure, spelled P-A-R-U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ornement, ajustement, ce qui sert à parer.
- 2Ornementation corporelle visible destinée à embellir, à personnifier un individu. Elle se concrétise par des bijoux, des peintures et tatouages corporels, des vêtements ou des coiffures.
- 3Garniture de pierres précieuses, destinée à servir de parure.
- 4Action de parer, de préparer.
- 5L’action d’ôter de la corne du pied d’un cheval avant de le ferrer, ou d’un bovin, pour le soigner.
- 6L’action par laquelle le relieur détache avec le couteau ce qui ne doit pas servir à couvrir un livre.
- 7Rognures.
- 8Raclure, ratissure de peau d'agneau blanchi, utilisé pour préparer une qualité particulière de colle de peau.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aprure,parrure,paruer,parurre,paurre,pparure,praure
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for parure
Misspelling Variants of "parure"
Frequency rank: #21,107 in French
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