purga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,483
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
purga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Remedio que sirve para vaciar los intestinos. Pronounced [ˈpuɾɣ̞a]. Often confused with puta and puro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpuɾɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #20,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for purga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpuɾɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #20,483 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for purga, with forms such as "ppurga", "pruga", and "pugra". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puta", "puro", "puros", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Spanish form is purga, spelled P-U-R-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Remedio que sirve para vaciar los intestinos.
- 2Eliminación de disidentes y sospechosos de una colectividad política u organización.
- 3Desechos que deben eliminarse de un aparato después de haberlo usado.
- 4Desechos de un proceso industrial, que deben eliminarse.
- 5(Ipomoea purga) Planta trepadora de la familia de las Convolvuláceas, originaria de México. Crece enroscada en los tallos de otras plantas, tiene una flores rosadas grandes y hermosas. Las raíces tienen un líquido blancuzco que es usado como laxante o purgante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppurga,pruga,pugra,purag,purgga,purrga,uprga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for purga
Misspelling Variants of "purga"
Frequency rank: #20,483 in Spanish
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