urze
/ˈuɾ.zɨ/
The verdict
“urze” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #93,363 among 147 “U” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,363
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 147
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome comum à várias plantas européias da família das ericáceas
Corpus desk
Index PT-urze · urze · Portuguese
urze · rank #93,363 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,363
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 147
- PHOTO-FINISH urupema
Nearest frequency peer: urupema (-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 “urze”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- trajar
trajar
6,661 corpus weight
- trattoria
trattoria
6,658 corpus weight
- Trentino
Trentino
6,657 corpus weight
- urupema
urupema
6,640 corpus weight
- urze
urze
6,638 corpus weight
- vaporizar
vaporizar
6,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “urze” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | urze |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈuɾ.zɨ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #93,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “urze” em português
Rare enough to double-check
urze is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #93,363 among 147 “U” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈuɾ.zɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "nome comum à várias plantas européias da família das ericáceas".
No generated misspelling entries exist for urze in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is urze, spelled U-R-Z-E.
Definition
- 1nome comum à várias plantas européias da família das ericáceas
This word in other languages
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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