piche
/ˈpi.ʃɨ/
The verdict
“piche” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,712 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,712
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - substância negra, resinosa, muito pegajosa, produto da destilação do alcatrão ou da terebintina; pez
Corpus desk
Index PT-piche · piche · Portuguese
piche · rank #58,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,712
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Piemonte
Nearest frequency peer: Piemonte (+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 “piche”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- oui
oui
41,311 corpus weight
- palpitar
palpitar
41,306 corpus weight
- peitinho
peitinho
41,295 corpus weight
- piche
piche
41,289 corpus weight
- Piemonte
Piemonte
41,288 corpus weight
- pimento
pimento
41,286 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piche” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piche |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpi.ʃɨ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “piche” em português
Rare enough to double-check
piche is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,712 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpi.ʃɨ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "substância negra, resinosa, muito pegajosa, produto da destilação do alcatrão ou da terebintina; pez".
No misspelling variants are generated for piche in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is piche, spelled P-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1substância negra, resinosa, muito pegajosa, produto da destilação do alcatrão ou da terebintina; pez
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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