pureté
French, noun/pyʁ.te/
pureté is spelled P-U-R-E-T-É (6 letters) and appears 4.8 times per million words in written French, the 11,545th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pureté is a French feminine noun meaning “purity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité d’une chose qui est pure et sans mélange”.
What does pureté mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepurity
la pureté du cœur et de l'esprit
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité d’une chose qui est pure et sans mélange. 2. Intégrité, droiture, innocence, exemption d’altération, de corruption, de souillure. 3. Chasteté. 4. Exactitude dans le choix, l’emploi et l’arrangement des termes et des phrases.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pureté
- puretés plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pureté?
- /pyʁ.te/
- \pyʁ.te\
- [pyʁ.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pureté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pureté in French?
pureté appears 4.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).