purger
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#21,130
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
purger is aFrenchverb. It means: Purifier ; nettoyer. Pronounced \pyʁ.ʒe\. Often confused with pure and puer.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for purger is 6 letters long, classified as averb, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for purger, with forms such as "ppurger", "pruger", and "pugrer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "pure", "puer", "prier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 purger, spelled P-U-R-G-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppurger,pruger,pugrer,puregr,purgerr,purgger,purgre,purrger,uprger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for purger
Misspelling Variants of "purger"
Frequency rank: #21,130 in French
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