Skip to main content

impuro

Portuguese, adjective/ĩˈpu.ɾu/

impuro is spelled I-M-P-U-R-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 40,952nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impuro is a Portuguese adjective meaning “impure (lacking purity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que não é puro”.

What does impuro mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    impure (lacking purity)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. que não é puro 2. que contém impureza 3. contaminado 4. lascivo

noun: 1. ser impuro

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of impuro

  • impura feminine
  • impuros masculine plural
  • impuras feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce impuro?

  • Brazil /ĩˈpu.ɾu/
  • Portugal /ĩˈpu.ɾu/
  • Portugal /ĩ.ˈpu.ɾu/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to impuro

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is impuro in Portuguese?

impuro appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

What to look up after impuro