piqûre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,280
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
piqûre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique. Pronounced \pi.kyʁ\. Often confused with pire and pure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piqûre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.kyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for piqûre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.kyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,280 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for piqûre, with forms such as "ipqûre", "piqqûre", and "piqrûe". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pire", "pure", "pitre", 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 piqûre, spelled P-I-Q-Û-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite blessure que fait une chose ou un animal qui pique.
- 2Piqûre anatomique : Blessure légère reçue en disséquant ou en faisant une opération chirurgicale, et qui produit souvent les accidents les plus graves et même la mort, par infection ou empoisonnement sanguin.
- 3Injection sous-cutanée intraveineuse ou intramusculaire d’un médicament à l’aide d’une seringue.
- 4Blessure que le maréchal fait accidentellement au pied d’un cheval qu’il ferre, en enfonçant un clou jusqu’au vif.
- 5Trous que font des insectes dans les fruits, le bois, les étoffes, le papier, etc.
- 6Petites taches d’humidité sur le papier.
- 7Coutures visibles, habituellement faites aujourd’hui à la machine, soit pour unir deux ou plusieurs étoffes mises l’une sur l’autre, soit pour orner certaines parties d’un vêtement.
- 8Légère offense que l’on reçoit.
- 9Soudain enthousiasme pour quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipqûre,piqqûre,piqrûe,piqûer,piqûrre,piûqre,ppiqûre,pqiûre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "piqûre"
Frequency rank: #18,280 in French
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