How to spell pure

hear itpu·r·e/pjʊr/adjectiveRules and real life

What it means: Clean and not mixed with anything else.

In a sentence: The water from the mountain stream is pure and clean.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as puer or pur.

Same family: purely, purity, purify, purification, impure. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Pure comes from Old French "pur" and Latin "purus," meaning "clean" or "unmixed." Over time, English speakers also began using it informally as an intensifier, as in "pure nonsense."

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