uro
/ˈuː.roː/
The verdict
“uro” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - queimar, arder, inflamar.
Corpus desk
Index PT-uro · uro · Portuguese
uro · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | uro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈuː.roː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “uro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
uro is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈuː.roː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "queimar, arder, inflamar.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for uro in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is uro, spelled U-R-O.
Definition
- 1queimar, arder, inflamar.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.