pífio
The verdict
“pífio” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #68,397 among 3,113 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,397
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,113
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - sem valor ou qualidade; ordinário, reles
| 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) |
Where “pífio” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pífio is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #68,397 among 3,113 “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
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 “pífio”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-Í-F-I-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.