PENA

Date "PENA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

"PENA" is a common misspelling or typo for: pane, pea, pen, penal, pens.

Specialty Definition: PENA

Domain	Definition
Mining	A large stone or boulder. Etymol: Spanish, "rock.". (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: PENA

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Height	Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: PENA

Etymologies containing "PENA": Fin. (references)

Non-English Usage: "PENA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Indonesian (ballpoint, pen), Italian (ache, achiness, anguish, distress, dolor, dolour, grief, pain, penalty, punishment, scourge, sorrow, suffering, trouble), Portuguese (crowquill, egret, feather, grief, mercy, nib, pain, pen, penalty, penholder, pity, plume, punishment, rue, ruth, sanction, sentence, stretch, suffering, sympathy, trouble), Portuguese Brazilian (pain, trouble), Serbo-Croatian (foam, lather, mousse, ream, scum, skim, spume, suds), Spanish (distress, embarrassment, fash, forfeit, heartache, infliction, labor, labour, misery, pain, penalty, sorrow, trouble), Turkish (plectrum), Turkmen (covering, defense).

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Modern Usage: PENA

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Pena de muerte (1973)

La Colpa e la pena (1965)

Desalmados en pena (1954)

O Parque da Pena (1928)

Alma en pena (1928)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: PENA

Domain	Title
Books	Contemporary American Success Stories: Famous People of Hispanic Heritage Geraldo Rivera; Melissa Gonzalez; Federico Pena; Ellen Ochoa (Mitchell Lane Multicultural Biography Series) (reference) Toques Flamencos: Paco Pena (reference) Margarita Tenia Una Pena - M - (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: PENA

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Photo Album: PENA

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	NRCS soil conservationist Juan Pena and landowner discuss needed conservation on watermelon croplands near Raymondville, TX. Harvested melons are being transferred from field wagons to trucks. {Slide 97CS3006]. Credit: Ken Hammond.		Rod Simpson and Grace Pena look over plans for self help homes in PA. Credit: USDA.
	NRCS District Conservationist, Noe Garza, Edinburg, Texas, and landowner Matias Pena, Jr. discuss conservation plans in Penas' cornfield. Credit: USDA.		Entomologist Elmer Ahrens (left) and animal caretaker Adolfo Pena inspect for cattle fever ticks. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: PENA

"Palacio da Pena 2" by Ibon San Martin
Commentary: "Mor pics of the Palace."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: PENA

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Players in the boiler market include Babcock-Wilcox (US and Spain) 15-20 percent, Marelli (Italy) 20 percent, and other participants including Skoda (Czech Republic), Parsons Peebles (UK), Mecanica La Pena (Spain), Knooter Erickson (new entry from the US), and some very small local firms. (references)
Economic History	Dominican Republic	The main candidates in 1996 were Vice President Jacinto Peynado (PRSC), Jose Francisco Pena Gomez (PRD), and Leonel Fernandez (PLD). (references)
	Dominican Republic	The leading parties in 1994 were the PRSC, linked to the International Christian Democratic political movement, whose candidate was President Joaquin Balaguer; the PRD, affiliated with the Socialist International, whose candidate was Jose Francisco Pena Gomez; and the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), whose candidate was former President Juan Bosch. (references)
Human Rights	Peru	In June the prosecutor's office began a preliminary investigation of an air force lieutenant and two noncommissioned officers for homicide in the August 2000 death of military recruit Ronald Enrique Pena Garcia of a bullet wound. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PENA

"PENA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "PENA" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	94.44%	17	85,106
Unclassified Items	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: PENA

The following table summarizes the usage of "PENA" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Pena	Last name	37,000	298
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: PENA

Expression using "PENA": Pena Blanca. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PENA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
jennifer pena	343	la pena	12
pena de muerte	164	gomez guillermo pena	11
de morte pena	101	paul pena	11
pena	72	florencia pena	10
elizabeth pena	64	alejandro fernandez lyrics pena tantita	10
jennifer lyrics pena	35	contra de la muerte pena	9
carlos pena	31	jeniffer pena	9
de la muerte pena	24	de en muerte pena puerto rico	9
amado pena	23	g gomez guillermo guillermo mez pe pena	8
paco pena	22	dan pena	8
jenifer pena	22	jennifer pena pic	8
tony pena	18	de dolor el jennifer lyrics pena presencia tu	8
chile de en muerte pena	18	center cultural la pena	8
adam de la pena	18	capital pena	7
jennifer pena picture	17	da palacio pena	7
ellen hart pena	17	elizabeth ertman jennifer pena	7
de en mexico muerte pena	17	elizabeth pena nude	7
ezequiel pena	15	ajudava não pena valeria	7
martins pena	13	miriam pena rosa	7
federico pena	13	juan pena	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: PENA

Derivations
	Words beginning with "PENA": penal, penalise, penalised, penalises, penalising, penalities, penality, penalization, penalizations, penalize, penalized, penalizes, penalizing, penally, penalties, penalty, penance, penanced, penances, penancing, penang, penangs, penates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "PENA": subpena. (additional references)
	Words containing "PENA": openabilities, openability, openable, subpenaed, subpenaing, subpenas, tapenade, tapenades, unopenable. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"PENA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ephah, Paeonia, Panafu, Panaji, Panau, Panax, Pannai, Payan, penae, Penas, penax, Penca, P'eng, Penha, Penham, Pennia, Penpad, Pensa, Pensak, Penza, Perna, Pesne, Phewa, Pinna, Pirna, Pleni, Plensa, Pugna. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PENA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nape, neap, pane, pean.
	Words within the letters "a-e-n-p"
	-1 letter: ane, ape, nae, nap, pan, pea, pen.
	-2 letters: ae, an, en, na, ne, pa, pe.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-n-p"
	+1 letter: apnea, arpen, aspen, napes, nappe, neaps, paean, paeon, paned, panel, panes, panne, paten, peans, pecan, pekan, penal, penna, plane, plena, sneap, spean.
	+2 letters: alpine, apneal, apneas, apneic, apnoea, append, arpens, arpent, aspens, bedpan, canape, dampen, daphne, encamp, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, eupnea, expand, happen, hapten, napery, napped, napper, nappes, nappie, paeans, paeons, paesan, pained, pander, panels, panged, pangen, panier, panned, pannes, panted, pantie, panzer, parent, patens, patent, patine, patten, pavane, pawned, pawnee, pawner, peahen, peanut, peasen, pecans, pechan, pedant, pekans, penang, penial, penman, pennae, pennia, pentad, petnap, pineal, pineta, pinnae, planed, planer, planes, planet, platen, pneuma, prance, preman, rapine, rappen, repand, replan, shapen, sneaps, speans, teopan, trepan, weapon.
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