piamentevspigmentoWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#40,282
“piamente” frequency rank
#30,674
“pigmento” frequency rank
70956
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature piamente pigmento
Definition de modo pio substância que dá coloração a tecido animal ou vegetal

Letter map: piamente vs pigmento

Shared letters muted; letters that set piamente and pigmento apart highlighted. Shared run: 6. piamente (CVVCVCCV) and pigmento (CVCCVCCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
piamente
8 ch
pigmento

Grammar separator: piamente vs pigmento

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: piamente is anadverb and pigmentoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70956, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

piamente is recorded at frequency rank #40,282, classified as anadv. pigmento is at rank #30,674, tagged as anoun, pronounced /piˈɡ.mẽ.tu/.

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 70956, this pair ranks #3,483 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of piamente vs pigmento

Shared letters: eimnpt. Private to "piamente": a. Private to "pigmento": go.

"piamente" · 8 letters · shape CVVCVCCV  ·  "pigmento" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • piamente ← ipamente · paimente · piaemnte · piamenet · piamennte · piamentte · piametne · piammente
  • pigmento ← ipgmento · pgimento · pigemnto · piggmento · pigmennto · pigmenot · pigmentto · pigmetno

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "piamente" for "pigmento" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "piamente" is an adverb and "pigmento" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "piamente" or "pigmento" show up more?
"pigmento" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #30,674 in our Portuguese list, against #40,282 for "piamente". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "piamente" and "pigmento". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "piamente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "pigmento" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #3,483 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "piamente" and "pigmento" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "piamente vs premente". 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 #3,483 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