usurpar
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,642
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
usurpar is aPortugueseverb. It means: apoderar-se astuciosa ou violentamente de uma coisa de que alguém legitimamente usufruiu ou que lhe pertence; alcançar sem direito; adquirir por fraude Pronounced /u.zuɾ.ˈpaɾ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | usurpar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /u.zuɾ.ˈpaɾ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,642 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for usurpar is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /u.zuɾ.ˈpaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #53,642 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for usurpar 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 usurpar, spelled U-S-U-R-P-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1apoderar-se astuciosa ou violentamente de uma coisa de que alguém legitimamente usufruiu ou que lhe pertence; alcançar sem direito; adquirir por fraude
- 2exercer de modo indevido; assumir ilicitamente
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Frequency rank: #53,642 in Portuguese
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