psiu
The verdict
“psiu” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,960 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,960
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exprime desejo, e serve de chamamento, a que se volte a atenção ao emitente
Corpus desk
Index PT-psiu · psiu · Portuguese
psiu · rank #52,960 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,960
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH puxador
Nearest frequency peer: puxador (+1 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 “psiu”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- ponderado
ponderado
47,060 corpus weight
- psiu
psiu
47,041 corpus weight
- puxador
puxador
47,040 corpus weight
- querubim
querubim
47,037 corpus weight
- rabeca
rabeca
47,035 corpus weight
- reapresenta…
reapresentação
47,028 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “psiu” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psiu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,960 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “psiu” em português
Rare enough to double-check
psiu is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,960 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "exprime desejo, e serve de chamamento, a que se volte a atenção ao emitente".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for psiu, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is psiu, spelled P-S-I-U.
Definition
- 1exprime desejo, e serve de chamamento, a que se volte a atenção ao emitente
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psiu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ei! ... Psiu!
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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