pourras

\pu.ʁa\

/\pu.ʁa\/ verb

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The verdict

“pourras” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#5,277
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pourras · pourras · French

pourras · rank #5,277 · 8 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,277
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pourcentage

Nearest frequency peer: pourcentage (-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 « pourras »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pourras » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pourras vs pourri
71% similar
pourras vs pourrez
71% similar
pourras vs pourrie
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pourras
PropertyValue
Headwordpourras
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.ʁa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,277
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourras »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pourrasse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pourcentage » (#5,276), « poème » (#5,278), « portail » (#5,275). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pourras » est au #5,277. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pourras (IPA \pu.ʁa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,277 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourras, with forms such as "opurras", "poruras", and "pourars". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "pourri", "pourrez", "pourrie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pourras, spelled P-O-U-R-R-A-S.

Definition

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pourras appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « Quand je te le dirai, tu tireras sur la corde pour monter la grande voile », ou encore « tu pourras resserrer le winch avec la manivelle ».

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opurras
  • poruras
  • pourars
  • pouras
  • pourrass
  • pourrsa
  • ppourras
  • puorras

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourras - 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.

opurras2poruras2pourars2pouras1pourrass1pourrsa2ppourras1puorras2
Edit distance from "pourras"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pourras"?
"pourras" is spelled P-O-U-R-R-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.ʁa\.
What does "pourras" mean?
As a verb, "pourras" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du futur de pouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "pourras"?
"pourras" is commonly confused with "pourri", "pourrez", "pourrie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pourras"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pourras" is \pu.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pourras" come from?
"pourras" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pourras", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

portail#5,275parlons#5,271quoique#5,283occupée#5,269

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

nuages8 variantsvaloir8 variantsdonnait8 variantscoupes8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list