lure
/l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː(ɹ)/, /lɜː/
The verdict
“lure” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,603 among 581 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,603
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 581
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - isca
Corpus desk
Index PT-lure · lure · Portuguese
lure · rank #72,603 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,603
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 581
- PHOTO-FINISH kore
Nearest frequency peer: kore (-17 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 “lure”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- inexpugnável
inexpugnável
27,444 corpus weight
- intensivame…
intensivamente
27,441 corpus weight
- kore
kore
27,415 corpus weight
- lure
lure
27,398 corpus weight
- morbidade
morbidade
27,368 corpus weight
- musse
musse
27,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “lure” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lure |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː(ɹ)/, /lɜː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,603 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “lure” em português
Rare enough to double-check
lure is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,603 among 581 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /l(j)ʊə/, /lɔː(ɹ)/, /lɜː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "isca".
No misspelling variants are generated for lure in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is lure, spelled L-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1isca
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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