coas
Portuguese, contraction
coas is spelled C-O-A-S (4 letters) and appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese, the 203,084th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coas is a Portuguese feminine contraction meaning “contraction of com + as, literally “with the”: feminine plural of co” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a plural of coa. With an accent, côas is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coas; still used where the…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “contração popular e antiga de com + as”.
What does coas mean in English?
contraction
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femininecontraction of com + as, literally “with the”: feminine plural of co
noun
- 1
plural of coa
noun
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plural of coa
verb
- 1
second-person singular present indicative of coar
noun
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coas; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
noun
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coas; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
verb
- 1
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of coas; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
contraction: 1. contração popular e antiga de com + as
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 coas
- co'as alternative
- côas alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is coas in Portuguese?
coas appears about once in every 52 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).