pensionista
The verdict
“pensionista” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,065 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,065
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - reformado
Corpus desk
Index PT-pensionista · pensionista · Portuguese
pensionista · rank #69,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,065
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH perceção
Nearest frequency peer: perceção (+2 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 “pensionista”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palpitação
palpitação
30,949 corpus weight
- parangolé
parangolé
30,947 corpus weight
- pavimentar
pavimentar
30,942 corpus weight
- penar
penar
30,939 corpus weight
- pensionista
pensionista
30,936 corpus weight
- perceção
perceção
30,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pensionista” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pensionista |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #69,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pensionista” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pensionista is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,065 among 1,578 “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
- 1reformado
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pensionista appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Como pensionista, ela usufrui agora de descontos em transportes públicos e eventos culturais.»
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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