pesponto
Portuguese, noun/pesˈpõ.tu/
pesponto is spelled P-E-S-P-O-N-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese, the 264,336th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pesponto is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a backstitch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “acabamento externo de costura com pontos mais largos, feitos com linha da mesma cor do tecido ou não”.
What does pesponto mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea backstitch
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. acabamento externo de costura com pontos mais largos, feitos com linha da mesma cor do tecido ou não
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 pesponto
- pespontos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pesponto?
- Brazil /pesˈpõ.tu/
- /peʃˈpõ.tu/
- Portugal /pɨʃˈpõ.tu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pesponto in Portuguese?
pesponto appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).