paia
The verdict
“paia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,778 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,778
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ruim, tosco
Corpus desk
Index PT-paia · paia · Portuguese
paia · rank #75,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,778
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH orm
Nearest frequency peer: orm (-7 rank slots)
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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “paia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- obturação
obturação
24,243 corpus weight
- oportunamen…
oportunamente
24,232 corpus weight
- orm
orm
24,230 corpus weight
- paia
paia
24,223 corpus weight
- pens
pens
24,210 corpus weight
- petiscar
petiscar
24,205 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “paia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “paia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
paia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,778 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ruim, tosco".
No generated misspelling entries exist for paia in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is paia, spelled P-A-I-A.
Definition
- 1ruim, tosco
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Os meus ancestrais sempre me disseram que a música brasileira era ruim, mas hoje em dia está paia de mais, nosso ouvido é feito de peniquinho.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).