piá
/pi.ˈa/
The verdict
“piá” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,932 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,932
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - diz-se de alguém que se comporta ou lembra um menino
Corpus desk
Index PT-pia · piá · Portuguese
piá · rank #56,932 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,932
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH planar
Nearest frequency peer: planar (+1 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 “piá”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- parelha
parelha
43,090 corpus weight
- patience
patience
43,084 corpus weight
- piá
piá
43,069 corpus weight
- planar
planar
43,068 corpus weight
- pleasant
pleasant
43,067 corpus weight
- porosidade
porosidade
43,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piá” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piá |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /pi.ˈa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,932 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “piá” em português
Rare enough to double-check
piá is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,932 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /pi.ˈa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
piá has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is piá, spelled P-I-Á.
Definition
- 1diz-se de alguém que se comporta ou lembra um menino
- 2criança do sexo masculino
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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