piteira

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “piteira” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for piteira
PropertyValue
Headwordpiteira
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#78,216
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “piteira” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).piteiracai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “portuga” (#78,223), “peto” (#78,208), “preceptor” (#78,225). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “piteira” fica em #78,216. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    planta da família das amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
  2. 2
    bebedeira
  3. 3
    tubo de diversos materiais onde se encaixa o cigarro para fumar
  4. 4
    engano, calote, dívida

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how piteira appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. ... 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.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piteira"?
"piteira" is spelled P-I-T-E-I-R-A.
What does "piteira" mean?
As a noun, "piteira" means: planta da família das amarilidáceas, oriunda do México
What language does "piteira" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "piteira", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list