cobardia
Portuguese, noun/ko.baʁˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/
cobardia is spelled C-O-B-A-R-D-I-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobardia is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “alternative form of covardia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “falta de coragem; medo, timidez, poltronice”.
What does cobardia mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of covardia
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. falta de coragem; medo, timidez, poltronice 2. fraqueza de ânimo; pusilanimidade 3. ânimo traiçoeiro 4. o mesmo que covardia
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.
How do you pronounce cobardia?
- Brazil /ko.baʁˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/
- Brazil [ko.baɦˈd͡ʒi.ɐ]
- /ko.baɾˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cobardia in Portuguese?
cobardia appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).