urucum
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#72,860
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
urucum is aPortuguesenoun. It means: árvore (Bixa orellana) nativa das zonas tropicais da América do Sul até o México ao norte, endêmica e bastante disseminada no Brasil; o mesmo que urucuzeiro Pronounced /u.ɾuˈkũ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urucum |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /u.ɾuˈkũ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for urucum is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ɾuˈkũ/. Corpus data places it at rank #72,860 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.
No misspelling variants are generated for urucum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is urucum, spelled U-R-U-C-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1árvore (Bixa orellana) nativa das zonas tropicais da América do Sul até o México ao norte, endêmica e bastante disseminada no Brasil; o mesmo que urucuzeiro
- 2corante vermelho obtido de sementes secas e trituradas do urucum para uso culinário ou cosmético, tanto doméstico quanto industrial
- 3um dos nomes pelos quais é conhecida a cobra Bothrops alternatus, o mesmo que urutu
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #72,860 in Portuguese
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