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pêni

Portuguese, noun

pêni is spelled P-Ê-N-I (4 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pêni is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of péni” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, péni is a different word: “penny (1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “centésima parte da libra esterlina”.

What does pêni mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of péni

noun

as péni
  1. 1

    masculinepenny (1/100 of a pound sterling or British pound)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. centésima parte da libra esterlina

noun: 1. centésima parte da libra esterlina

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 pêni

  • pénis plural
  • pêni alternative Brazil
  • penny alternative
  • pênis plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to pêni

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pêni in Portuguese?

pêni appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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