palafita
Portuguese, noun/pa.laˈfi.tɐ/
palafita is spelled P-A-L-A-F-I-T-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Palafita is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “lake dwelling, stilt house (a house raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “sustentação de habitações sobre a água”.
What does palafita mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelake dwelling, stilt house (a house raised on stilts over the surface of the soil or a body of water)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. sustentação de habitações sobre a água 2. habitação sobre a água
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of palafita
- palafitas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce palafita?
- Brazil /pa.laˈfi.tɐ/
- Portugal /pɐ.lɐˈfi.tɐ/
- /pa.la.ˈfi.ta/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is palafita in Portuguese?
palafita appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).