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Perú

Perú is the alternative spelling of Peru.

Meaning of Peru

Proper noun

Peru

  1. A country in South America. Official name: Republic of Peru. Capital and largest city: Lima.
    • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN
  2. A city in Illinois.
  3. A city, the county seat of Miami County, Indiana.
  4. A township in Miami County, Indiana.
  5. A city in Kansas.
  6. A town in Oxford County, Maine, named after the country.

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Questions about Perú

What is Perú the alternative spelling of?
Perú is the alternative spelling of Peru.

Words near Perú in the dictionary

  1. Perzes
  2. perzine
  3. perzines
  4. perzinfotel
  5. Perónism
  6. Perú
  7. pes
  8. pes carinatum
  9. pes excavatum
  10. PESA
  11. Pesach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Perú (page history and authors); Peru (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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