-ure
Letters
4 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
-ure is aFrenchsuffix. It means: Le radical est un adjectif et le suffixe indique un état. Pronounced \yʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | -ure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Suffix |
| IPA | \yʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for -ure is 4 letters long, classified as asuffix, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \yʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for -ure in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 -ure, spelled --U-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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 :
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter - in our French index: