peça

noun

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The verdict

“peça” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,319) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#1,319
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel

Corpus desk

Index PT-peca · peça · Portuguese

peça · rank #1,319 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,319
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH policial

Nearest frequency peer: policial (+1 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.

Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “peça”

Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo

corpus weight

What this shows As barras situam “peça” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

peça vs per
50% similar
peça vs pes
50% similar
peça vs puta
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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

Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “peça”

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).peçacai aqui:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Na mesma faixa de raridade aparecem “policial” (#1,320), “parabéns” (#1,317), “normalmente” (#1,316). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “peça” fica em #1,319. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for peça is neighbouring look-alikes ("per", "pes", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #1,319 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 9 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for peça, with forms such as "epça", "peaç", and "ppeça". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is peça, spelled P-E-Ç-A.

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

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how peça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O planejamento estratégico é uma peça importante em qualquer organização.
  2. Cada jogador começa a partida de xadrez com oito peças e oito peões.

This word in other languages

piece(English)pieza(Español)pièce(Français)Stück(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • epça
  • peaç
  • ppeça
  • pçea

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of peça - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

epça2peaç2ppeça1pçea2
Edit distance from "peça"

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.

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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "peça", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

digo#1,331vice#1,298loja#1,287mesa#1,364

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list