pietà
"pieta" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pietà” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pieta · pietà · English
pietà · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pietà |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pietà” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pietà is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pietà, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian pietà. Doublet of piety, and pity. The correct English form is pietà, spelled P-I-E-T-À.
Definition
- 1A sculpture or painting of the Virgin Mary holding and mourning the dead body of Jesus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pietà appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Two ladies were already in the cloister chapel, with a gentleman. As Kitty and her friend entered, these persons had just finished their inspection of the damaged but most beautiful "Pietà" which hangs over the altar, and their faces were towards the entrance.
Whereas Beuys's early sculptural work was consciously formed within a modernized version of the stylized Romanesque tradition of art, frequently with a Christian content such as crucifixions or pietàs, he gradually was able to free himself from this more traditional approach.
Etymology
From Italian pietà. Doublet of piety, and pity.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.