peça

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,319

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

4

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

peça is aPortuguesenoun. It means: cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel It ranks #1,319 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with per and pes.

Key facts for peça
PropertyValue
Headwordpeça
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,319
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of peça in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for peça is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,319 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for peça, with forms such as "epça", "peaç", and "ppeça". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "per", "pes", "puta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is peça, spelled P-E-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel
  2. 2
    pedra ou figura nos jogos de tabuleiro
  3. 3
    documento que faz parte de um processo
  4. 4
    porção de pano tecido de uma só vez
  5. 5
    obra musical ou teatral
  6. 6
    boca-de-fogo; canhão
  7. 7
    divisão de uma casa
  8. 8
    pessoa de mau-carácter; engano; partida
  9. 9
    órgão sexual de machos

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: epça,peaç,ppeça,pçea

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peça

Misspelling Variants of "peça"

epça4peaç4ppeça5pçea4
Misspelling Variants of "peça"

Frequency rank: #1,319 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peça"?
"peça" is spelled P-E-Ç-A.
What does "peça" mean?
As a noun, "peça" means: cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel
What words are commonly confused with "peça"?
"peça" is commonly confused with "per", "pes", "puta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "peça" come from?
"peça" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.