purpura
/ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/
"purpura" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“purpura” is uncommon English (frequency #84,637 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,637
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.
Corpus desk
Index EN-purpura · purpura · English
purpura · rank #84,637 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,637
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Pushpa
Nearest frequency peer: Pushpa (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “purpura”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- protozoan
protozoan
15,370 corpus weight
- psychogenic
psychogenic
15,367 corpus weight
- purpura
purpura
15,364 corpus weight
- Pushpa
Pushpa
15,363 corpus weight
- quacking
quacking
15,361 corpus weight
- quadrillion
quadrillion
15,360 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “purpura” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purpura |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “purpura” in English
Rare enough to double-check
purpura is uncommon English at frequency #84,637 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for purpura in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpure. The correct English form is purpura, spelled P-U-R-P-U-R-A.
Definition
- 1The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpure.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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