pur
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,034
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pur is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est sans mélange, en parlant d’un produit, d’une émotion. Pronounced \pyʁ\. It ranks #3,034 in French word frequency. Often confused with PV and Py.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pur is 3 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pyʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,034 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pur in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PV", "Py", "px", 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 pur, spelled P-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est sans mélange, en parlant d’un produit, d’une émotion.
- 2Qui n’est pas altéré, vicié, corrompu ou souillé, en parlant d'un élément physique ou en parlant d'une personne, de ses émotions ou de ses attributs.
- 3Désigne l’état de l’homme tel qu’on le suppose antérieurement à toute civilisation.
- 4Abstrait, fondamental. Antonyme : appliqué.
- 5Absolu, sans mélange, s’emploie pour donner plus de force à la signification des mots auxquels on l’associe. Alors il précède ordinairement le nom mais il le suit, quand il est précédé lui-même du mot tout qui ajoute encore à son énergie.
- 6Il est quelquefois suivi de la particule de, tant au sens propre qu’au figuré.
- 7Propre, régulier, bien construit, en parlant de style.
- 8Net, exact, correctement tracé, en parlant de dessin.
- 9Qui ne consiste que dans le seul émail du champ de l’écu, sans aucune pièce héraldique. Synonyme : plein.
- 10Qui est composé à au moins 80 % d’une seule essence.
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Frequency rank: #3,034 in French
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