piano

//pi.ˈã.nu// adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,333

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

piano is anPortugueseadj. It means: demudado de um modo impetuoso e manifestativo para outro recolhidamente oposto Pronounced /pi.ˈã.nu/. It ranks #5,333 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pio and piso.

Key facts for piano
PropertyValue
Headwordpiano
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
IPA/pi.ˈã.nu/
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,333
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of piano in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for piano is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pi.ˈã.nu/. Corpus data places it at rank #5,333 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "demudado de um modo impetuoso e manifestativo para outro recolhidamente oposto".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for piano, with forms such as "ipano", "paino", and "pianno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pio", "piso", "pico", 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 piano, spelled P-I-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    demudado de um modo impetuoso e manifestativo para outro recolhidamente oposto

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ipano,paino,pianno,piaon,pinao,ppiano

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piano

Misspelling Variants of "piano"

ipano5paino5pianno6piaon5pinao5ppiano6
Misspelling Variants of "piano"

Frequency rank: #5,333 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piano"?
"piano" is spelled P-I-A-N-O. The IPA pronunciation is /pi.ˈã.nu/.
What does "piano" mean?
As an adj, "piano" means: demudado de um modo impetuoso e manifestativo para outro recolhidamente oposto
What words are commonly confused with "piano"?
"piano" is commonly confused with "pio", "piso", "pico". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piano"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piano" is /pi.ˈã.nu/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piano" come from?
"piano" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.