purgatoire
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,731
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
purgatoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu où, selon la doctrine catholique, les âmes de ceux qui meurent en état de grâce vont expier les péchés dont ils n’ont pas fait une pénitence suffisante en ce monde. Pronounced \pyʁ.ɡa.twaʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pyʁ.ɡa.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #24,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for purgatoire is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pyʁ.ɡa.twaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #24,731 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for purgatoire, with forms such as "ppurgatoire", "prugatoire", and "pugratoire". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 purgatoire, spelled P-U-R-G-A-T-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Lieu où, selon la doctrine catholique, les âmes de ceux qui meurent en état de grâce vont expier les péchés dont ils n’ont pas fait une pénitence suffisante en ce monde.
- 2Lieu ou période de temps où l'un subit ce qui est ressenti comme une punition, que seul un terme ou une contrition pourra annuler.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppurgatoire,prugatoire,pugratoire,puragtoire,purgaotire,purgatiore,purgatoier,purgatoirre,purgatorie,purgattoire,purggatoire,purgtaoire,purrgatoire,uprgatoire
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Misspelling Variants of "purgatoire"
Frequency rank: #24,731 in French
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