peixe
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,341
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
peixe is aPortuguesenoun. It means: animal aquático pecilotérmico, dotado de corpo fusiforme, nadadeiras e guelras Pronounced /ˈpej.ʃi/ plural: /ˈpej.ʃis/ ou /ˈpej.ʃiʃ/. It ranks #2,341 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pie and pix.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peixe |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpej.ʃi/ plural: /ˈpej.ʃis/ ou /ˈpej.ʃiʃ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,341 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for peixe is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpej.ʃi/ plural: /ˈpej.ʃis/ ou /ˈpej.ʃiʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,341 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for peixe, with forms such as "epixe", "peiex", and "peixxe". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "pie", "pix", "pele", 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 peixe, spelled P-E-I-X-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1animal aquático pecilotérmico, dotado de corpo fusiforme, nadadeiras e guelras
- 2assunto
- 3santista
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: epixe,peiex,peixxe,pexie,piexe,ppeixe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for peixe
Misspelling Variants of "peixe"
Frequency rank: #2,341 in Portuguese
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