pífio
The verdict
“pífio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,397 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,397
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - sem valor ou qualidade; ordinário, reles
Corpus desk
Index PT-pifio · pífio · Portuguese
pífio · rank #68,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,397
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH póquer
Nearest frequency peer: póquer (+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 “pífio”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pesco
pesco
31,631 corpus weight
- piar
piar
31,630 corpus weight
- prelo
prelo
31,621 corpus weight
- pífio
pífio
31,604 corpus weight
- póquer
póquer
31,603 corpus weight
- recobrar
recobrar
31,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pífio” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pífio |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pífio” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pífio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,397 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "sem valor ou qualidade; ordinário, reles".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pífio, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is pífio, spelled P-Í-F-I-O.
Definition
- 1sem valor ou qualidade; ordinário, reles
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pífio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A participação do exército na guerra foi pífia
A apresentação do ator foi pífia
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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