purgar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#42,096
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
purgar is aSpanishverb. It means: Limpiar, purificar una cosa, quitándole todo cuanto la puede hacer imperfecta o no le conviene. Pronounced [puɾˈɣ̞aɾ]. Often confused with putear and purgas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgar |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [puɾˈɣ̞aɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #42,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for purgar is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [puɾˈɣ̞aɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #42,096 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for purgar, with forms such as "ppurgar", "prugar", and "pugrar". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "putear", "purgas", "pura", 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 purgar, spelled P-U-R-G-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Limpiar, purificar una cosa, quitándole todo cuanto la puede hacer imperfecta o no le conviene.
- 2Eliminar el aire que haya entrado en las cañerías o tuberías, en especial de la calefacción, utilizando para ello los purgadores de los radiadores.
- 3Satisfacer con una pena parte o todo lo que uno merecía por su culpa o delito.
- 4Padecer el alma las penas del purgatorio para purificarse de las reliquias del pecado y poder entrar en el cielo.
- 5Dar al enfermo la medicina conveniente para exonerar el vientre.
- 6Evacuar un humor, ya sea naturalmente o mediante la medicina que se ha aplicado a este fin.
- 7Expiar.
- 8Purificar, acrisolar.
- 9Corregir, moderar las pasiones.
- 10Desvanecer los indicios, sospecha o nota que hay contra una persona.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppurgar,prugar,pugrar,puragr,purgarr,purggar,purgra,purrgar,uprgar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for purgar
Misspelling Variants of "purgar"
Frequency rank: #42,096 in Spanish
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