purgar
The verdict
“purgar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,165 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,165
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - esvaziar o intestino
Corpus desk
Index PT-purgar · purgar · Portuguese
purgar · rank #84,165 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,165
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH puritanismo
Nearest frequency peer: puritanismo (+1 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 “purgar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- proativo
proativo
15,847 corpus weight
- pup
pup
15,838 corpus weight
- purgar
purgar
15,836 corpus weight
- puritanismo
puritanismo
15,835 corpus weight
- quarentão
quarentão
15,832 corpus weight
- ralhar
ralhar
15,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “purgar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purgar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “purgar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
purgar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,165 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for purgar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is purgar, spelled P-U-R-G-A-R.
Definition
- 1esvaziar o intestino
- 2purificar, eliminando as impurezas ou matérias estranhas
- 3expelir pus ou humores
- 4remir-se de culpa ou pecado
- 5esvaziar o cache do navegador para atualizar completamente uma página
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how purgar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poderia ser, por exemplo, uma forma de purgar os pecados de que é acusado, entre eles o de adotar um modelo neoliberal mais rígido que o de seu antecessor.
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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