urca
The verdict
“urca” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #32,012 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #32,012
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - forca, instrumento de lavoura
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 | urca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #32,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “urca” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for urca is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #32,012 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for urca, with forms such as "ruca", "urac", and "urcca". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "usa", "uva", "urdu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is urca, spelled U-R-C-A.
Definition
- 1forca, instrumento de lavoura
- 2antiga embarcação larga
- 3aquela pessoa ou animal que come muito, (em sentido comparativo)
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ruca,urac,urcca,urrca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of urca - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “urca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is U-R-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “usa” - see the side-by-side comparison. urca vs usa
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.