blur
/blɜr/
The verdict
“blur” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,173 among 840 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,173
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - embaçamento
Corpus desk
Index PT-blur · blur · Portuguese
blur · rank #53,173 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,173
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH bocaina
Nearest frequency peer: bocaina (+1 rank slots)
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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “blur”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- apuro
apuro
46,859 corpus weight
- barulheira
barulheira
46,838 corpus weight
- blur
blur
46,828 corpus weight
- bocaina
bocaina
46,827 corpus weight
- cavanhaque
cavanhaque
46,804 corpus weight
- cestinha
cestinha
46,798 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “blur” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blur |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /blɜr/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,173 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “blur” em português
Rare enough to double-check
blur is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,173 among 840 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /blɜr/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "embaçamento".
blur doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is blur, spelled B-L-U-R.
Definition
- 1embaçamento
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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