pife
Portuguese, noun
pife is spelled P-I-F-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese, the 101,652nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pife is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “fife (small, shrill pipe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of pifar.
What does pife mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinefife (small, shrill pipe)
- 2
masculinea game where each player is given 9 cards and has to create three sequences or sets
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of pife
- pifes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pife
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pife in Portuguese?
pife appears about once in every 11 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).