cobrão
Portuguese, noun/koˈbɾɐ̃w̃/
cobrão is spelled C-O-B-R-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese, the 185,713th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cobrão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “shingles (herpes zoster)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cobra macha, cobra grande”.
What does cobrão mean in English?
noun
- 1
informalmasculineshingles (herpes zoster)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cobra macha, cobra grande 2. herpes-zóster
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 cobrão?
- Brazil /koˈbɾɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [koˈbɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /kuˈbɾɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cobrão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cobrão in Portuguese?
cobrão appears about once in every 43 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).