purê
Portuguese, noun
purê is spelled P-U-R-Ê (4 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 23,592nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Purê is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard form of puré” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, puré is a different word: “purée or puree”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “iguaria feita de legumes, carnes ou frutas raladas transformadas num caldo grosso ou numa massa pastosa”.
What does purê mean in English?
noun
- 1
BrazilmasculineBrazilian Portuguese standard form of puré
noun
- 1
masculinepurée or puree
- 2
masculinemash
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. iguaria feita de legumes, carnes ou frutas raladas transformadas num caldo grosso ou numa massa pastosa
noun: 1. iguaria feita de legumes, carnes ou frutas raladas transformadas num caldo grosso ou numa massa pastosa
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 purê
- purés plural
- purê alternative Brazil
- pirê alternative Brazil
- pureia alternative
- purée alternative
- purês plural
- (Vocábulo com dupla acentuação gráfica: purê) canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to purê
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is purê in Portuguese?
purê appears 1.8 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).