Pierre

//pjɛʁ/./ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,198

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

Pierre is aPortuguesenoun. It means: Pedro Pronounced /pjɛʁ/.. It ranks #7,198 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with Pietro and Pietra.

Key facts for Pierre
PropertyValue
HeadwordPierre
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/pjɛʁ/.
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,198
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Pierre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pjɛʁ/.. Corpus data places it at rank #7,198 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pedro".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for Pierre, with forms such as "iperre", "peirre", and "piere". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Pietro", "Pietra", "Piero", 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 Pierre, spelled P-I-E-R-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pedro

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iperre,peirre,piere,pierer,pirere,ppierre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Pierre

Misspelling Variants of "Pierre"

iperre6peirre6piere5pierer6pirere6ppierre7
Misspelling Variants of "Pierre"

Frequency rank: #7,198 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Pierre"?
"Pierre" is spelled P-I-E-R-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is /pjɛʁ/..
What does "Pierre" mean?
As a noun, "Pierre" means: Pedro
What words are commonly confused with "Pierre"?
"Pierre" is commonly confused with "Pietro", "Pietra", "Piero". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Pierre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Pierre" is /pjɛʁ/.. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Pierre" come from?
"Pierre" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter P in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.