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pé

Portuguese, noun

pé is spelled P-É (2 letters) and appears 112 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 869th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pé is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “foot, part of the human body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, Pe. is a different word: “abbreviation of padre (“priest”); Fr”. With an accent, pê is a different word: “The name of the Latin script letter P/p”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “extremidade dos membros inferiores do corpo humano, responsável pelo equilíbrio”.

What does pé mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinefoot, part of the human body

  2. 2

    masculinefoot, part of the body of some terrestrial animals

  3. 3

    masculinefoot (lower part of a slope)

  4. 4

    masculinefoot (the bottom of a page)

  5. 5

    masculinefooting

  6. 6

    masculineleg (rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object)

  7. 7

    masculineriser (the vertical part of a step on a staircase)

  8. 8

    masculinePortuguese foot, a former unit of length equivalent to about 33.6 cm

noun

as Pe.
  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of padre (“priest”); Fr.

noun

as pê
  1. 1

    masculineThe name of the Latin script letter P/p.

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. extremidade dos membros inferiores do corpo humano, responsável pelo equilíbrio 2. haste de sustentação dos móveis 3. unidade de medida linear anglo-saxônica, equivalente a cerca de 30,48 centímetros do sistema métrico decimal 4. pata

noun: 1. nome da letra do alfabeto latino representada por p, P 2. décima sétima letra do alfabeto hebraico (פ, ף), correspondente ao P latino

noun: 1. nome do fuso horário que está três horas a menos do que o Meridiano de Greenwich (UTC−3)

The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.

Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of pé

  • pés plural
  • pè alternative obsolete
  • pês plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pé

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pé in Portuguese?

pé appears 112 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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