coala
/ˈkwa.lɐ/
The verdict
“coala” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #53,766 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #53,766
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coala |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkwa.lɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coala” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for coala is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkwa.lɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #53,766 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coala, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is coala, spelled C-O-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1mamífero marsupial pertencente à família Phascolarctidae, possui pelo cinza e branco, vive no Sudeste e Nordeste da Austrália
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “coala”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-A-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkwa.lɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.