pimento
/pi.ˈmẽ.tu/
The verdict
“pimento” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #58,715 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,715
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - o fruto do pimenteiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-pimento · pimento · Portuguese
pimento · rank #58,715 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,715
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Piemonte
Nearest frequency peer: Piemonte (-2 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 “pimento”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palpitar
palpitar
41,306 corpus weight
- peitinho
peitinho
41,295 corpus weight
- piche
piche
41,289 corpus weight
- Piemonte
Piemonte
41,288 corpus weight
- pimento
pimento
41,286 corpus weight
- prurido
prurido
41,264 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pimento” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pimento |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pi.ˈmẽ.tu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pimento” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pimento is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #58,715 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pi.ˈmẽ.tu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pimento, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is pimento, spelled P-I-M-E-N-T-O.
Definition
- 1o fruto do pimenteiro
- 2o mesmo que pimenteiro
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).