kuru
/kʊ.ˈru/
The verdict
“kuru” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #94,940 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,940
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doença causada por príons, identificada nas décadas de 1950 e 1960 na Papua-Nova Guiné
Corpus desk
Index PT-kuru · kuru · Portuguese
kuru · rank #94,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,940
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH kier
Nearest frequency peer: kier (-9 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 “kuru”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- joelheira
joelheira
5,088 corpus weight
- Kauã
Kauã
5,076 corpus weight
- kien
kien
5,071 corpus weight
- kier
kier
5,070 corpus weight
- kuru
kuru
5,061 corpus weight
- lias
lias
5,050 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “kuru” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kuru |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʊ.ˈru/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “kuru” em português
Rare enough to double-check
kuru is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #94,940 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʊ.ˈru/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "doença causada por príons, identificada nas décadas de 1950 e 1960 na Papua-Nova Guiné".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kuru, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is kuru, spelled K-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1doença causada por príons, identificada nas décadas de 1950 e 1960 na Papua-Nova Guiné
This word in other languages
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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