pez

noun

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The verdict

“pez” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #67,691 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#67,691
frequency rank, Portuguese
1,578
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - peixe

Corpus desk

Index PT-pez · pez · Portuguese

pez · rank #67,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #67,691
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,578
  • PHOTO-FINISH percevejo

Nearest frequency peer: percevejo (-2 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Ranks da cauda longa perto de “pez”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pez” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pez
PropertyValue
Headwordpez
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters3
Frequency rank#67,691
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “pez” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).pezcai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “percevejo” (#67,689), “plank” (#67,694), “plutónio” (#67,695). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “pez” fica em #67,691. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pez is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #67,691 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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

  1. 1
    peixe

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Obs.: Em se tratando de alimento, usa-se pescado

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pez"?
"pez" is spelled P-E-Z.
What does "pez" mean?
As a noun, "pez" means: peixe
What language does "pez" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

kam#67,587mum#67,002Ket#66,927bir#66,638

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list