pistão
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#26,846
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pistão is aPortuguesenoun. It means: peça cilíndrica normalmente feita de alumínio ou liga de alumínio, que se move longitudinalmente no interior do cilindro dos motores de explosão Pronounced /piʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Often confused with pito and posto.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pistão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for pistão is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /piʃ.ˈtɐ̃w̃/. Corpus data places it at rank #26,846 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pistão, with forms such as "ipstão", "pisstão", and "pistoã". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pito", "posto", "prisão", and more, 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 pistão, spelled P-I-S-T-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1peça cilíndrica normalmente feita de alumínio ou liga de alumínio, que se move longitudinalmente no interior do cilindro dos motores de explosão
- 2pistom
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipstão,pisstão,pistoã,pisttão,pisãto,pitsão,ppistão,psitão
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pistão
Misspelling Variants of "pistão"
Frequency rank: #26,846 in Portuguese
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