COPD
noun
COPD is a noun meaning “Initialism of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-P-D, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of COPD is COPDs.
What does COPD mean?
noun
- 1
Initialism of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of COPD
- COPDs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is COPD?
COPD appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
COPD in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disease:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.