pourpre
\puʁpʁ\
The verdict
“pourpre” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,526. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’un rouge soutenu, proche du cramoisi ou du violet. #9E0E40 #6A0DAD
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourpre · pourpre · French
pourpre · rank #17,526 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,526
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poulain
Nearest frequency peer: poulain (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourpre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- potentielles
potentielles
82,477 corpus weight
- poulain
poulain
82,476 corpus weight
- pourpre
pourpre
82,475 corpus weight
- praticiens
praticiens
82,474 corpus weight
- primordiale
primordiale
82,473 corpus weight
- profile
profile
82,472 corpus weight
What this shows « pourpre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourpre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \puʁpʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourpre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around pourpre (IPA \puʁpʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,526 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourpre, with forms such as "opurpre", "porupre", and "pouprre". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pourra", "pourri", "poutre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pourpre, spelled P-O-U-R-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1D’un rouge soutenu, proche du cramoisi ou du violet. #9E0E40 #6A0DAD
- 2Couleur de la robe d’un vin rouge, indiquant une meilleure maturité que la couleur grenat ; mais une maturité moindre qu’une robe de couleur rubis.
- 3→ voir de pourpre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourpre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’entrée de sa loge, le Marseillais s’exhibait dans un smoking lavande fleuri d’un œillet pourpre.
La salle des fêtes était habillée pour une grande cérémonie, de somptueux rideaux blancs et pourpres qui tombaient du haut plafond jusqu'au bas des portes et des fenêtres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurpre
- porupre
- pouprre
- pourper
- pourppre
- pourprre
- pourrpe
- pourrpre
- ppourpre
- puorpre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourpre - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).