pingo
The verdict
“pingo” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #17,885 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #17,885
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - gota; gotejamento; goteira
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pingo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pingo” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pingo is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #17,885 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pingo, with forms such as "ipngo", "pigno", and "pinggo". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pio", "piso", "pito", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is pingo, spelled P-I-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1gota; gotejamento; goteira
- 2ponto que se coloca sobre a letra i e j
- 3aposta mínima do carteado que se é obrigado a fazer
- 4pequena porção de solda
- 5porção diminuta
- 6cavalo bonito e corredor
- 7gonorreia
- 8pingue, gordura do porco derretida, banha
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipngo,pigno,pinggo,pinngo,pinog,pnigo,ppingo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pingo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “pingo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-I-N-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “pio” - see the side-by-side comparison. pingo vs pio
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.