pacasvspeçaConfusable pair

Quick tell: pacas is a adverb, peça is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“pacas” is an adverb and “peça” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#43,064
“pacas” frequency rank
#1,319
“peça” frequency rank
44383
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pacas peça
Definition muito cada uma das partes de um todo, duma coleção, dum mecanismo, etc..; pedaço; fragmento; móvel

Letter map: pacas vs peça

Shared letters muted; letters that set pacas and peça apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

5 ch
pacas
4 ch
peça

Grammar separator: pacas vs peça

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pacas is anadverb and peçaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44383, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pacas is recorded at frequency rank #43,064, classified as anadv. peça is at rank #1,319, tagged as anoun.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 44383, this pair ranks #21,118 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pacas vs peça

Shared letters: ap. Private to "pacas": cs. Private to "peça": .

"pacas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "peça" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pacasapcas · paacs · pacass · paccas · pacsa · pcaas · ppacas

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "pacas" and "peça" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pacas" is an adverb and "peça" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "pacas" vs "peça" - which ranks higher?
"peça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,319 in our Portuguese list, against #43,064 for "pacas". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "pacas" and "peça". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "pacas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "peça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,118 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pacas" and "peça" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pacas vs pança". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #21,118 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list