choco
Portuguese, noun
choco is spelled C-H-O-C-O (5 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 33,314th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Choco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cuttlefish (any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”). With an accent, chôco is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ato de chocar”.
What does choco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecuttlefish (any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia)
adjective
- 1
fertile (of an egg)
- 2
brooding (of a bird)
- 3
rotten (of an egg)
- 4
rotten, damaged
- 5
flat (of a carbonated drink)
- 6
dispirited, unenergetic, lethargic
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to brood”)
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of chocar (“to collide”)
noun
- 1
masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of choco
noun
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of choco
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. diz-se do ovo das aves com o embrião em desenvolvimento 2. diz-se do estado febril das aves durante a incubação 3. que está em estado biológico alterado a exibir um comportamento arisco, que tende a estar muito aninhado e que é predisposto a estar a realizar incubação de ovos
noun: 1. ato de chocar 2. período de incubação 3. cama
noun: 1. molusco cefalópode da família dos Sepilídeos usado na alimentação; siba
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 choco
- chocos plural
- metaphonic plural
- chôco alternative
- choca feminine
- chocas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to choco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is choco in Portuguese?
choco appears 1.0 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).