peça
The verdict
“peça” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,319 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,319
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 4
- letters
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peça” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for peça is 4 letters long, classified as a noun. 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 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
- 1cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel
- 2pedra ou figura nos jogos de tabuleiro
- 3documento que faz parte de um processo
- 4porção de pano tecido de uma só vez
- 5obra musical ou teatral
- 6boca-de-fogo; canhão
- 7divisão de uma casa
- 8pessoa de mau-carácter; engano; partida
- 9órgão sexual de machos
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “peça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “per” - see the side-by-side comparison. peça vs per
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.