ímpio
/ˈĩ.pju/
The verdict
“ímpio” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #58,871 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #58,871
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que despreza a religião, não tem fé
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ímpio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈĩ.pju/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ímpio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for ímpio is 5 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈĩ.pju/. Corpus data places it at rank #58,871 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ímpio, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is ímpio, spelled Í-M-P-I-O.
Definition
- 1que despreza a religião, não tem fé
- 2que caracteriza impiedade
- 3que não perdoa; inexorável, insensível
- 4que ofende a moral, a justiça, etc
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “ímpio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is Í-M-P-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈĩ.pju/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.