purga
Spanish, noun
purga is spelled P-U-R-G-A (5 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20,279th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Purga is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “purge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of purgar. With an accent, purgá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of purgar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Remedio que sirve para vaciar los intestinos”.
What does purga mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepurge
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of purgar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Remedio que sirve para vaciar los intestinos. 2. Eliminación de disidentes y sospechosos de una colectividad política u organización. 3. Desechos que deben eliminarse de un aparato después de haberlo usado. 4. Desechos de un proceso industrial, que deben eliminarse.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of purga
- purgas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to purga
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is purga in Spanish?
purga appears 2.3 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).