penca
/ˈpẽ.kɐ/
The verdict
“penca” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #53,489 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,489
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - conjunto de flores, frutas ou chaves
Corpus desk
Index PT-penca · penca · Portuguese
penca · rank #53,489 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,489
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pensante
Nearest frequency peer: pensante (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “penca”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- paliativo
paliativo
46,527 corpus weight
- pediátrico
pediátrico
46,514 corpus weight
- penca
penca
46,512 corpus weight
- pensante
pensante
46,511 corpus weight
- pilhar
pilhar
46,504 corpus weight
- polarizado
polarizado
46,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “penca” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpẽ.kɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “penca” em português
Rare enough to double-check
penca is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #53,489 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpẽ.kɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 10 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for penca, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is penca, spelled P-E-N-C-A.
Definition
- 1conjunto de flores, frutas ou chaves
- 2grande quantidade
- 3nariz grande
- 4pênis
- 5pedaço de couro com o que o verdugo açoitava ao réu
- 6sarda, mancha pardacenta ou amarela na pele
- 7marca ou mancha na fruta ou fruto, por dano
- 8ramo de batata
- 9doença das plantas cultivadas que as faz morrer por zonas do plantio
- 10talo de couve-galega
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how penca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Até que ponto a vida do pai, José Martiniano de Alencar, sacerdote e chefe de família com uma penca de filhos, influenciou a personalidade do autor?
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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