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penny

Portuguese, noun

penny is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of péni” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pêni”.

What does penny mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinealternative spelling of péni

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pêni

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 penny

  • pennies plural

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

How common is penny in Portuguese?

penny appears 3.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.

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