piso
/ˈpi.zu/
The verdict
“piso” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,780) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,780
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - modo de pisar ou andar
Corpus desk
Index PT-piso · piso · Portuguese
piso · rank #5,780 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,780
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH placar
Nearest frequency peer: placar (+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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “piso”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- pausa
pausa
94,227 corpus weight
- per
per
94,226 corpus weight
- perdoar
perdoar
94,224 corpus weight
- piso
piso
94,221 corpus weight
- placar
placar
94,220 corpus weight
- referido
referido
94,215 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “piso” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
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 | piso |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpi.zu/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “piso”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for piso is neighbouring look-alikes ("pó", "pro", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈpi.zu/. Frequency #5,780 among 1,578 “P” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for piso, with forms such as "ipso", "pisso", and "ppiso". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pó", "pro", "pix", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is piso, spelled P-I-S-O.
Definition
- 1modo de pisar ou andar
- 2terreno ou lugar onde se anda
- 3pavimento; sobrado
- 4superfície periférica da roda ou da lagarta dum veículo que contacta com o chão
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipso
- pisso
- ppiso
- psio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piso - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piso", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).