pur
/pˈɝ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The first — called by Laennec, from its resemblance to the pur of a cat, the purring tremor — is nearly always indicative of a valvular lesion. The second is caused by the to-and-fro motion of a roughened pericardium."
- "a. 1828, John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, On Connecticut River And there the wild-cat purs amid her brood."
- "It appears to me, past all doubt, that its [the goatsucker's] notes are formed by organic impulse, by the parts of its windpipe formed for sound, just as cats pur."