pura
\py.ʁa\
The verdict
“pura” is uncommon French (frequency #83,286 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,286
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe purer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pura · pura · French
pura · rank #83,286 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,286
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punitifs
Nearest frequency peer: punitifs (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pura »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PTR
PTR
16,718 corpus weight
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
- punitifs
punitifs
16,716 corpus weight
- pura
pura
16,715 corpus weight
- pythons
pythons
16,713 corpus weight
- pénaux
pénaux
16,712 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pura » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pura |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,286 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pura » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pura is uncommon French at frequency #83,286 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \py.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe purer.".
pura has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 pura, spelled P-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe purer.
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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