purger
\pyʁ.ʒe\
The verdict
“purger” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #21,130 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #21,130
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Purifier ; nettoyer.
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 | purger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pyʁ.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #21,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “purger” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for purger is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pyʁ.ʒe\. Corpus data places it at rank #21,130 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for purger, with forms such as "ppurger", "pruger", and "pugrer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "pure", "puer", "prier", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is purger, spelled P-U-R-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Purifier ; nettoyer.
- 2Ôter, faire sortir ce qu’il y a dans le corps d’impur, de superflu, de malfaisant, avec des remèdes pris ordinairement par la bouche.
- 3Dégager, en parlant du cerveau.
- 4Débarrasser de ce qui altère, de ce qui est mauvais.
- 5Éliminer les éléments indésirables d'un lieu.
- 6Se défaire de ce qui pèse sur l'âme ; se confesser.
- 7Épurer.
- 8Apurer.
- 9Détruire, modérer, épurer ou diriger, en parlant des passions.
- 10Faire disparaître, effacer.
- 11Laisser couler la fin d'un fût de bière et une partie du nouveau afin d’éliminer la mousse et d'assurer un service fluide.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppurger,pruger,pugrer,puregr,purgerr,purgger,purgre,purrger,uprger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of purger - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “purger”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-U-R-G-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pyʁ.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pure” - see the side-by-side comparison. purger vs pure
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.