pego
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,161
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pego is aPortuguesenoun. It means: o ponto mais fundo de um rio, lago, etc It ranks #3,161 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pó and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pego |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pego is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #3,161 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pego, with forms such as "epgo", "peggo", and "peog". 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, "pó", "pro", "per", 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 pego, spelled P-E-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1o ponto mais fundo de um rio, lago, etc
- 2voragem
- 3abismo
- 4nome que se aplica ao vento que sopra do sudoeste
- 5o macho da pega
- 6pequena refeição dos trabalhadores entre o almoço e o jantar
- 7pequena porção de comida
- 8petisqueira
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epgo,peggo,peog,pgeo,ppego
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pego
Misspelling Variants of "pego"
Frequency rank: #3,161 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index: