piteira
The verdict
“piteira” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #78,216 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,216
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - planta da família das amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
Corpus desk
Index PT-piteira · piteira · Portuguese
piteira · rank #78,216 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,216
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH portuga
Nearest frequency peer: portuga (+7 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 “piteira”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- parola
parola
21,809 corpus weight
- patogênico
patogênico
21,804 corpus weight
- peto
peto
21,793 corpus weight
- piteira
piteira
21,785 corpus weight
- portuga
portuga
21,778 corpus weight
- preceptor
preceptor
21,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piteira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piteira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “piteira” em português
Rare enough to double-check
piteira is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #78,216 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for piteira, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is piteira, spelled P-I-T-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1planta da família das amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
- 2bebedeira
- 3tubo de diversos materiais onde se encaixa o cigarro para fumar
- 4engano, calote, dívida
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how piteira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
... fazia questão da sua bengalinha com cabeça de prata e da sua piteira de âmbar e espuma, em que ele equilibrava um cigarro de palha.
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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Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).