ur
/ur/
The verdict
“ur” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,653) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,653
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - aquático, da água
Corpus desk
Index PT-ur · ur · Portuguese
ur · rank #33,653 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,653
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH uniformemente
Nearest frequency peer: uniformemente (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “ur”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- uniformemen…
uniformemente
66,349 corpus weight
- ur
ur
66,348 corpus weight
- ven
ven
66,345 corpus weight
- ventania
ventania
66,343 corpus weight
- videoconfer…
videoconferência
66,341 corpus weight
- Wanessa
Wanessa
66,337 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ur” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ur |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ur/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #33,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ur”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ur is neighbouring look-alikes ("us", "ut", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /ur/. Frequency #33,653 among 147 “U” headwords. Gloss: "aquático, da água".
No misspelling variants are generated for ur in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "us", "ut", "usa", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ur, spelled U-R.
Definition
- 1aquático, da água
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.