pureza
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,135
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
pureza is aPortuguesenoun. It means: condição ou estado de puro; ausência de qualquer coisa que contamine, polua ou suje Often confused with puré and preta.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pureza |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pureza is 6 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #11,135 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pureza, with forms such as "ppureza", "prueza", and "puerza". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "puré", "preta", "presa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pureza, spelled P-U-R-E-Z-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1condição ou estado de puro; ausência de qualquer coisa que contamine, polua ou suje
- 2ausência de qualquer mistura ou modificação
- 3ausência de culpa ou maldade; inocência
- 4castidade física; virgindade
- 5ausência de elementos estranhos ou impróprios; correção
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppureza,prueza,puerza,pureaz,purezza,purreza,purzea,upreza
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pureza
Misspelling Variants of "pureza"
Frequency rank: #11,135 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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