Pentecoste
The verdict
“Pentecoste” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #84,977 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,977
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
Corpus desk
Index PT-pentecoste · Pentecoste · Portuguese
Pentecoste · rank #84,977 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,977
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH pave
Nearest frequency peer: pave (-6 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 “Pentecoste”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- pantanoso
pantanoso
15,041 corpus weight
- pave
pave
15,030 corpus weight
- Pentecoste
Pentecoste
15,024 corpus weight
- personalizá…
personalizável
15,017 corpus weight
- pornography
pornography
15,005 corpus weight
- procedure
procedure
14,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Pentecoste” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pentecoste |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “Pentecoste” em português
Rare enough to double-check
Pentecoste is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #84,977 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Pentecoste doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Pentecoste, spelled P-E-N-T-E-C-O-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
- 2festa em que os cristãos celebram o sétimo domingo após a Páscoa (entre 10 de maio e 13 de junho), em memória da descida do Espírito Santo sobre os apóstolos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pentecoste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O Pentecoste sempre ocorre 49 dias após a Páscoa. Ele é comemorado nas Igrejas Católicas do Mundo inteiro.
Synonyms
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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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