usura

//u.ˈzu.ɾɐ// noun

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/.

Key facts for usura
PropertyValue
Headwordusura
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/
Letters5
Frequency rank#65,890
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of usura in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    quantia de juros considerada excessiva, social ou legalmente, em especial quando cobrada acima de um limite determinado por lei
  2. 2
    mesquinhez, mesquinharia, avareza, agiotagem
  3. 3
    juros
  4. 4
    ambição, ganância, cobiça
  5. 5
    lucro em demasia
  6. 6
    contrato de empréstimo de fundos que compreende uma cláusula que obriga o pagamento a ser acrescido de juros
  7. 7
    obtenção, 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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "usura"?
"usura" is spelled U-S-U-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is /u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/.
What does "usura" mean?
As a noun, "usura" means: quantia de juros considerada excessiva, social ou legalmente, em especial quando cobrada acima de um limite determinado por lei
How do you pronounce "usura"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "usura" is /u.ˈzu.ɾɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "usura" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.