pourra

/\pu.ʁa\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#853

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pourra is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir. Pronounced \pu.ʁa\. It ranks #853 in French word frequency. Often confused with pourri and pourvu.

Key facts for pourra
PropertyValue
Headwordpourra
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.ʁa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#853
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pourra in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pourra is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.ʁa\. Corpus data places it at rank #853 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pourra, with forms such as "opurra", "porura", and "poura". 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, "pourri", "pourvu", "poutre", 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 pourra, spelled P-O-U-R-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opurra,porura,poura,pourar,ppourra,puorra

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pourra

Misspelling Variants of "pourra"

opurra6porura6poura5pourar6ppourra7puorra6
Misspelling Variants of "pourra"

Frequency rank: #853 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pourra"?
"pourra" is spelled P-O-U-R-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.ʁa\.
What does "pourra" mean?
As a verb, "pourra" means: Troisième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "pourra"?
"pourra" is commonly confused with "pourri", "pourvu", "poutre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pourra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pourra" is \pu.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pourra" come from?
"pourra" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.