piscovspreçoWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: pisco is a adjective, preço is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“pisco” is an adjective and “preço” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#31,500
“pisco” frequency rank
#996
“preço” frequency rank
32496
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature pisco preço
Definition pequeno, fechado, referido aos olhos custo unitário de qualquer coisa que possa ser vendida

Letter map: pisco vs preço

Shared letters muted; letters that set pisco and preço apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. pisco (CVCCV) and preço (CCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

5 ch
pisco
5 ch
preço

Role in the sentence - pisco and preço

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: pisco is anadjective and preçoanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32496, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

pisco is recorded at frequency rank #31,500, classified as anadj. preço is at rank #996, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈpɾe.su/.

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 32496, this pair ranks #35,296 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of pisco vs preço

Shared letters: op. Private to "pisco": cis. Private to "preço": erç.

"pisco" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "preço" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • pisco ← ipsco · picso · piscco · pisoc · pissco · ppisco · psico

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "pisco" and "preço" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "pisco" is an adjective and "preço" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "pisco" or "preço" show up more?
"preço" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #996 in our Portuguese list, against #31,500 for "pisco". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "pisco" and "preço".

  • Full dictionary entry for "pisco" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "preço" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,296 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "pisco" and "preço" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pilão vs pisco". 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 #35,296 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