kuru

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for kuru is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kʊ.ˈru/. Corpus data places it at rank #94,940 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "doença causada por príons, identificada nas décadas de 1950 e 1960 na Papua-Nova Guiné".

No misspelling variants are generated for kuru in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 kuru, spelled K-U-R-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.