purpúrico
The verdict
“purpúrico” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as an adjective — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: relativo ao ácido nitrogenado relacionado ao ácido barbitúrico que, por hidrólise, produz aloxano e uramila, notável por seus sais em cor púrpura e que foi descrido originalmente em 1818 pelo quími...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | purpúrico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /puʁˈpu.ɾi.ku/ [puhˈpu.ɾi.ku] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “purpúrico” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for purpúrico is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /puʁˈpu.ɾi.ku/ [puhˈpu.ɾi.ku]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for purpúrico in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 purpúrico, spelled P-U-R-P-Ú-R-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1relativo ao ácido nitrogenado relacionado ao ácido barbitúrico que, por hidrólise, produz aloxano e uramila, notável por seus sais em cor púrpura e que foi descrido originalmente em 1818 pelo químico inglês William Prout
- 2relativo ao ácido orgânico que não foi ainda isolado e que é reconhecido apenas por sua ligação com óxidos metálicos
- 3relativo às afecções caracterizadas pelo surgimento de manchas vermelho-escuras na pele
- 4relativo à cor púrpura
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Using “purpúrico”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-U-R-P-Ú-R-I-C-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /puʁˈpu.ɾi.ku/ [puhˈpu.ɾi.ku] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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