purgar
The verdict
“purgar” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #84,165 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #84,165
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - esvaziar o intestino
| 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) |
Where “purgar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for purgar is 6 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #84,165 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.
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
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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Using “purgar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-U-R-G-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.