pernambuco
Portuguese, noun
pernambuco is spelled P-E-R-N-A-M-B-U-C-O (10 letters) and appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,874th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pernambuco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “someone from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pernambucano”.
What does pernambuco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletesomeone from the Brazilian state of Pernambuco
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. estado brasileiro localizado no centro-leste da Região Nordeste do Brasil; é o estado mais antigo do Brasil e faz divisa com Paraíba e Ceará ao norte; Bahia e Alagoas ao sul; Piauí ao oeste; ao leste encontra-se o Oceano Atlântico; sua capital é Recife
noun: 1. pernambucano
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pernambuco
- pernambucos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pernambuco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pernambuco in Portuguese?
pernambuco appears 31 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).