pens
/pɛnz/
The verdict
“pens” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,791 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,791
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural de pen
Corpus desk
Index PT-pens · pens · Portuguese
pens · rank #75,791 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,791
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH petiscar
Nearest frequency peer: petiscar (+5 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 “pens”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- oportunamen…
oportunamente
24,232 corpus weight
- orm
orm
24,230 corpus weight
- paia
paia
24,223 corpus weight
- pens
pens
24,210 corpus weight
- petiscar
petiscar
24,205 corpus weight
- poeticamente
poeticamente
24,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pens” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pens |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pɛnz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,791 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pens” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pens is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,791 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pɛnz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural de pen".
pens doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is pens, spelled P-E-N-S.
Definition
- 1plural de pen
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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