usura
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#65,890
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
usura is aPortuguesenoun. It means: quantia de juros considerada excessiva, social ou legalmente, em especial quando cobrada acima de um limite determinado por lei Pronounced /u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usura |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for usura is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #65,890 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for usura in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 usura, spelled U-S-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1quantia de juros considerada excessiva, social ou legalmente, em especial quando cobrada acima de um limite determinado por lei
- 2mesquinhez, mesquinharia, avareza, agiotagem
- 3juros
- 4ambição, ganância, cobiça
- 5lucro em demasia
- 6contrato de empréstimo de fundos que compreende uma cláusula que obriga o pagamento a ser acrescido de juros
- 7obtenção, por parte de alguém, de benefícios excessivos ou injustificados (vantagem pecuniária que for, segundo as circunstâncias do caso, manifestamente desproporcionada com a contraprestação), explorando situação de necessidade, anomalia psíquica, incapacidade, inépcia, inexperiência, ligeireza, dependência, estado mental ou fraqueza de carácter de outrém (de acordo com os artigos 226º do Código Penal e 282º do Código Civil)
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #65,890 in Portuguese
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