penna

Portuguese, noun

penna is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pena” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does penna mean in English?

noun

1
femininepre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pena

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

Forms of penna

pennas plural

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

How common is penna in Portuguese?

penna appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.

penna0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Portuguesemore common

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