Pentecoste

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “Pentecoste” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Pentecoste
PropertyValue
HeadwordPentecoste
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#84,977
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “Pentecoste” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).Pentecostecai nesta cauda de raridade:

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

O eixo é logarítmico: cada tick marca cerca de dez vezes menos frequência. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “pave” (#84,971), “personalizável” (#84,984), “pantanoso” (#84,960). Entre 1,578 lemas com “P”, “Pentecoste” fica em #84,977. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
  2. 2
    festa 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 example

These source excerpts show how Pentecoste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. O Pentecoste sempre ocorre 49 dias após a Páscoa. Ele é comemorado nas Igrejas Católicas do Mundo inteiro.

Synonyms

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 "Pentecoste"?
"Pentecoste" is spelled P-E-N-T-E-C-O-S-T-E.
What does "Pentecoste" mean?
As a noun, "Pentecoste" means: município brasileiro do estado do Ceará
What language does "Pentecoste" come from?
"Pentecoste" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Pentecoste", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list