pensionista

noun

The verdict

“pensionista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,065 among 3,113 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#69,065
frequency rank, Portuguese
3,113
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - reformado

Key facts for pensionista
PropertyValue
Headwordpensionista
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Frequency rank#69,065
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pensionista” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). pensionista lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pensionista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,065 among 3,113 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "reformado".

No generated misspelling entries exist for pensionista in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is pensionista, spelled P-E-N-S-I-O-N-I-S-T-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    reformado

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pensionista"?
"pensionista" is spelled P-E-N-S-I-O-N-I-S-T-A.
What does "pensionista" mean?
As a noun, "pensionista" means: reformado
What language does "pensionista" come from?
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Using “pensionista”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-E-N-S-I-O-N-I-S-T-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words

Other uncommon Portuguese words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list