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peça

Portuguese, noun

peça is spelled P-E-Ç-A (4 letters) and appears 74 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Peça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “piece (part of a larger whole)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of pedir. With a tilde, pecã is a different word: “pecan (the nut of the pecan tree)”. Without its cedilla, peca is a different word: “third-person singular present indicative”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel”.

What does peça mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininepiece (part of a larger whole)

  2. 2

    femininepiece (single item belonging to a class of similar items)

    peça de fruta

  3. 3

    femininepiece

  4. 4

    feminineplay

  5. 5

    feminineroom (an empty subdivision or room within a house or building)

  6. 6

    Brazilfeminineslanggun

  7. 7

    Brazilcolloquialfemininecock, dick (penis)

verb

  1. 1

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  2. 2

    third-person singular imperative

noun

as pecã
  1. 1

    femininepecan (the nut of the pecan tree)

verb

as peca
  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel 2. pedra ou figura nos jogos de tabuleiro 3. documento que faz parte de um processo 4. porção de pano tecido de uma só vez

noun: 1. noz frutificada pela planta de nome nogueira-pecã

noun: 1. pequena esfera vítrea usada no jogo de gude; bolinha, bola de gude 2. jogo de gude.

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 peça

  • peças plural
  • pecãs plural

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

English words that translate to peça

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

How common is peça in Portuguese?

peça appears 74 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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