pez
The verdict
“pez” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #67,691 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #67,691
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - peixe
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pez |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pez” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pez is 3 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #67,691 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "peixe".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pez, 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, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pez, spelled P-E-Z.
Definition
- 1peixe
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 “pez”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.