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rentista

Portuguese, noun/ʁẽˈt͡ʃis.tɐ/

rentista is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “rentier (individual who receives income from assets and investments)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pessoa que vive exclusivamente de renda”.

What does rentista mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculinerentier (individual who receives income from assets and investments)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. pessoa que vive exclusivamente de renda

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 rentista

  • rentistas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce rentista?

  • Brazil /ʁẽˈt͡ʃis.tɐ/
  • Brazil [hẽˈt͡ʃis.tɐ]
  • /ʁẽˈt͡ʃiʃ.tɐ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to rentista

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is rentista in Portuguese?

rentista appears about once in every 40 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).