pender
The verdict
“pender” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,927 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,927
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (diz-se de coisas) estar suspendido ou inclinado
Corpus desk
Index PT-pender · pender · Portuguese
pender · rank #52,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,927
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH peek
Nearest frequency peer: peek (-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 “pender”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- parlamentar…
parlamentarismo
47,081 corpus weight
- pedregulho
pedregulho
47,076 corpus weight
- peek
peek
47,075 corpus weight
- pender
pender
47,074 corpus weight
- penoso
penoso
47,073 corpus weight
- picadeiro
picadeiro
47,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pender” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pender |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pender” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pender is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,927 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pender, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pender, spelled P-E-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1(diz-se de coisas) estar suspendido ou inclinado
- 2(diz-se de pessoas) estar inclinado a seguir uma linha de conduta
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pender appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No laticínio os provolones pendiam do teto.
Na eleição de JFK, o estado do Texas estava a pender para os republicanos.
This word in other languages
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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