pix
The verdict
“pix” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,539) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,539
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que ocorre pelo sistema brasileiro de transferência bancária digital instantânea Pix
Corpus desk
Index PT-pix · pix · Portuguese
pix · rank #47,539 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,539
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH Poland
Nearest frequency peer: Poland (+3 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 “pix”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- paralítico
paralítico
52,479 corpus weight
- pasteur
pasteur
52,472 corpus weight
- pix
pix
52,462 corpus weight
- Poland
Poland
52,459 corpus weight
- predial
predial
52,455 corpus weight
- proponente
proponente
52,449 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “pix” 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 | pix |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,539 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “pix”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pix is neighbouring look-alikes ("PT", "pó", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #47,539 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Gloss: "que ocorre pelo sistema brasileiro de transferência bancária digital instantânea Pix".
pix has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PT", "pó", "por", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is pix, spelled P-I-X.
Definition
- 1que ocorre pelo sistema brasileiro de transferência bancária digital instantânea Pix
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).