apurar
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,390
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
apurar is aPortugueseverb. It means: tornar puro; purificar; (por extensão) acrescentar e/ou suprimir características, de forma a melhorar: Often confused with aura and arar.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apurar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,390 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for apurar is 6 letters long, classified as averb. Corpus data places it at rank #11,390 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for apurar, with forms such as "appurar", "apruar", and "apuarr". 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, "aura", "arar", "atuar", 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 Portuguese form is apurar, spelled A-P-U-R-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1tornar puro; purificar; (por extensão) acrescentar e/ou suprimir características, de forma a melhorar:
- 2conseguir reunir, arrecadar, ganhar ou receber:
- 3averiguar; indagar; procurar conhecer ao certo; concluir; recensear:
- 4aperfeiçoar; melhorar; esmerar; refinar:
- 5fazer apuramento; selecionar por opção ou qualificar através de prova ou eleição:
- 6deixar ferver lentamente, de forma a tornar mais concentrado e a realçar assim o sabor:
- 7fazer esforço por fazer ou ser melhor; esmerar-se:
- 8qualificar-se; conseguir passar prova eliminatória:
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: appurar,apruar,apuarr,apurarr,apurra,apurrar,auprar,paurar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for apurar
Misspelling Variants of "apurar"
Frequency rank: #11,390 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our Portuguese index: