urro
/ˈu.Ru/
The verdict
“urro” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #87,800 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,800
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - rugido surdo e grave, mugido
Corpus desk
Index PT-urro · urro · Portuguese
urro · rank #87,800 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,800
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH unum
Nearest frequency peer: unum (-2 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “urro”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- textão
textão
12,240 corpus weight
- twink
twink
12,212 corpus weight
- unum
unum
12,203 corpus weight
- urro
urro
12,201 corpus weight
- vertido
vertido
12,193 corpus weight
- visage
visage
12,186 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “urro” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urro |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈu.Ru/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,800 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “urro” em português
Rare enough to double-check
urro is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #87,800 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈu.Ru/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "rugido surdo e grave, mugido".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for urro, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is urro, spelled U-R-R-O.
Definition
- 1rugido surdo e grave, mugido
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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