pimenta
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,505
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
pimenta is aPortuguesenoun. It means: planta oriental da família das piperáceas cujos frutos têm sabor picante e são usados como condimento Pronounced /pi.ˈmẽ.tɐ/. It ranks #4,505 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with pinta and pigmento.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pimenta |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pi.ˈmẽ.tɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pimenta is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /pi.ˈmẽ.tɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #4,505 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pimenta, with forms such as "ipmenta", "piemnta", and "pimenat". 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, "pinta", "pigmento", "piamente", 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 pimenta, spelled P-I-M-E-N-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1planta oriental da família das piperáceas cujos frutos têm sabor picante e são usados como condimento
- 2o fruto dessa planta
- 3o pó resultante da trituração desse fruto
- 4pimenteira
- 5de modo geral toda a substância vegetal de sabor picante usada como condimento
- 6malícia
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipmenta,piemnta,pimenat,pimennta,pimentta,pimetna,pimmenta,pimneta,pmienta,ppimenta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pimenta
Misspelling Variants of "pimenta"
Frequency rank: #4,505 in Portuguese
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