peteca
The verdict
“peteca” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #51,790 among 3,113 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,790
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - brinquedo que consiste em uma pequena base arredondada e macia, sobre a qual se encaixa geralmente um punhado de penas, e que é lançado para o ar por meio de golpes desfechados com a mão
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peteca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #51,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peteca” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
peteca is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #51,790 among 3,113 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for peteca, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is peteca, spelled P-E-T-E-C-A.
Definition
- 1brinquedo que consiste em uma pequena base arredondada e macia, sobre a qual se encaixa geralmente um punhado de penas, e que é lançado para o ar por meio de golpes desfechados com a mão
- 2bolinha de gude ou biroca
- 3ânimo, disposição pujante de espírito
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 “peteca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-T-E-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.