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-ture

-ture is the alternative form of -ure.

Meaning of -ure

Suffix (1)

-ure (noun-forming suffix, plural -ures)

  1. (idiomatic) A process; a condition; a result of an action.
    • erase + -ure → erasure
  2. (idiomatic) An official entity or function.

Suffix (2)

-ure (noun-forming suffix, plural -ures)

  1. (idiomatic) A tail.

Questions about -ture

What is -ture the alternative form of?
-ture is the alternative form of -ure.

Words near -ture in the dictionary

  1. -Tube
  2. -tuber
  3. -tude
  4. -tum-
  5. -tuple
  6. -ture
  7. -twt
  8. -ty
  9. -type
  10. -types
  11. -typic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ture (page history and authors); -ure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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