pure
\pyʁ\
The verdict
“pure” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,216) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #3,216
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La boisson en elle-même, plutôt fortement alcoolisée qui n’est pas coupé avec une autre plus légère ou sans alcool.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pure · pure · French
pure · rank #3,216 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,216
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prêtre
Nearest frequency peer: prêtre (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pure”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- provinces
provinces
96,788 corpus weight
- prêtre
prêtre
96,786 corpus weight
- pure
pure
96,785 corpus weight
- raté
raté
96,784 corpus weight
- regrette
regrette
96,783 corpus weight
- Rennes
Rennes
96,782 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pure” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pyʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “pure” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pure is neighbouring look-alikes ("puy", "pus", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pyʁ\. Frequency #3,216 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "La boisson en elle-même, plutôt fortement alcoolisée qui n’est pas coupé avec une autre plus légère ou sans alcool.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pure, with forms such as "ppure", "prue", and "purre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puy", "pus", "pût", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pure, spelled P-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1La boisson en elle-même, plutôt fortement alcoolisée qui n’est pas coupé avec une autre plus légère ou sans alcool.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Qu’est-ce que tu t’enfiles: une pure, une amazone, une tomate, une hussarde ou une mominette ? — Un guindal de pivois sans lance.
— T’as pris quoi ? Une vodka ? — Ouais, une pure.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppure
- prue
- purre
- upre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pure - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
What to do next
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- "pure" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "puy". View pair
- 4 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #3,216 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.