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pitanga

noun

pitanga is spelled P-I-T-A-N-G-A: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pitanga means “A Eugenia uniflora tree or its fruit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pitanga is pitangas.

How many letters and syllables are in pitanga?

Letters7: P-I-T-A-N-G-A
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pitanga?

Pitanga appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of pitanga

  • pitangas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pitanga mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A Eugenia uniflora tree or its fruit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does pitanga come from?

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pitanga, from Old Tupi 'ybapytanga.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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