pulchre
\pylkʁ\
The verdict
“pulchre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Beau, belle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pulchre · pulchre · French
pulchre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pulchre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pylkʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pulchre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pulchre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pylkʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Beau, belle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pulchre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pulchre, spelled P-U-L-C-H-R-E.
Definition
- 1Beau, belle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pulchre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle était pulchre Et formose, mais nègre ô chatte du Sépulcre, Ô chatte de minuit, ô chatte de Sabbat, Tu meurs ! quel deuil, sorcière, à ton pâle grabat !
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.