pitangas
/piˈtɐ̃.gɐʃ/
The verdict
“pitangas” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #92,218 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,218
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural de pitanga
Corpus desk
Index PT-pitangas · pitangas · Portuguese
pitangas · rank #92,218 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,218
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH plugar
Nearest frequency peer: plugar (+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 “pitangas”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pancadão
pancadão
7,807 corpus weight
- parafrasear
parafrasear
7,805 corpus weight
- petardo
petardo
7,791 corpus weight
- pitangas
pitangas
7,783 corpus weight
- plugar
plugar
7,781 corpus weight
- propositura
propositura
7,760 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pitangas” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pitangas |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piˈtɐ̃.gɐʃ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pitangas” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pitangas is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #92,218 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /piˈtɐ̃.gɐʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural de pitanga".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pitangas, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pitangas, spelled P-I-T-A-N-G-A-S.
Definition
- 1plural de pitanga
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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