piedade
/pjɛ.ˈda.dɨ/
The verdict
“piedade” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #6,228 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,228
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - virtude que inspira devoção às coisas santas e atos de amor e compaixão
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piedade |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pjɛ.ˈda.dɨ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piedade” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for piedade is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pjɛ.ˈda.dɨ/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,228 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "virtude que inspira devoção às coisas santas e atos de amor e compaixão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for piedade, with forms such as "ipedade", "peidade", and "pideade". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is piedade, spelled P-I-E-D-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1virtude que inspira devoção às coisas santas e atos de amor e compaixão
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipedade,peidade,pideade,pieadde,piedadde,piedaed,pieddade,pieddae,ppiedade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piedade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “piedade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-I-E-D-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /pjɛ.ˈda.dɨ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.