urso-polar
/ˈursupoˈlaːr/
The verdict
“urso-polar” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - grande urso do Ártico com pelo branco-amarelado
Corpus desk
Index PT-urso-polar · urso-polar · Portuguese
urso-polar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | urso-polar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈursupoˈlaːr/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “urso-polar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
urso-polar is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈursupoˈlaːr/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "grande urso do Ártico com pelo branco-amarelado".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for urso-polar, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is urso-polar, spelled U-R-S-O---P-O-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1grande urso do Ártico com pelo branco-amarelado
Synonyms
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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.