penico
/pɨ.ˈni.ku/
The verdict
“penico” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #55,734 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,734
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - recipiente com formato arredondado e fundo chato, mantido no quarto sob a cama e usado como vaso sanitário à noite
Corpus desk
Index PT-penico · penico · Portuguese
penico · rank #55,734 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,734
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pickles
Nearest frequency peer: pickles (+8 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 “penico”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mutável
mutável
44,296 corpus weight
- nunc
nunc
44,281 corpus weight
- octubre
octubre
44,280 corpus weight
- penico
penico
44,267 corpus weight
- pickles
pickles
44,259 corpus weight
- primado
primado
44,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “penico” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | penico |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɨ.ˈni.ku/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,734 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “penico” em português
Rare enough to double-check
penico is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #55,734 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɨ.ˈni.ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "recipiente com formato arredondado e fundo chato, mantido no quarto sob a cama e usado como vaso sanitário à noite".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for penico, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is penico, spelled P-E-N-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1recipiente com formato arredondado e fundo chato, mantido no quarto sob a cama e usado como vaso sanitário à noite
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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