pernoitar
/pɨɾ.noj.ˈtaɾ/
The verdict
“pernoitar” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #64,403 among 1,578 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,403
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - passar a noite
Corpus desk
Index PT-pernoitar · pernoitar · Portuguese
pernoitar · rank #64,403 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,403
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH payment
Nearest frequency peer: payment (-3 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 “pernoitar”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- palmar
palmar
35,610 corpus weight
- paralelepíp…
paralelepípedo
35,609 corpus weight
- payment
payment
35,601 corpus weight
- pernoitar
pernoitar
35,598 corpus weight
- plagiar
plagiar
35,592 corpus weight
- poderosamen…
poderosamente
35,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “pernoitar” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pernoitar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɨɾ.noj.ˈtaɾ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “pernoitar” em português
Rare enough to double-check
pernoitar is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #64,403 among 1,578 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pɨɾ.noj.ˈtaɾ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pernoitar, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is pernoitar, spelled P-E-R-N-O-I-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1passar a noite
- 2realizar algo ou entreter-se durante a noite
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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