-ure
\yʁ\
The verdict
“-ure” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a suffix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Le radical est un adjectif et le suffixe indique un état.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ure · -ure · French
-ure · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "-" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \yʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « -ure » en français
Rare enough to double-check
-ure is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as asuffix, transcribed \yʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for -ure, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is -ure, spelled --U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Le radical est un adjectif et le suffixe indique un état.
- 2Le radical est un nom commun et le suffixe a une valeur collective, indique un ensemble.
- 3Le radical est un nom commun et le suffixe a une valeur collective, indique un ensemble.
- 4Le radical est un verbe et le suffixe indique une action, le résultat de cette action, la procédure pour obtenir ce résultat. Il fonctionne souvent en dissimilation sémantique par rapport aux synonymes -age, -ment, -tion :
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how -ure appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
droit → droiture.
dent → denture.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.