cocada
The verdict
“cocada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,007 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,007
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - doce de coco cujos ingredientes básicos são açúcar, manteiga e coco ralado, doce típico do Brasil
Corpus desk
Index PT-cocada · cocada · Portuguese
cocada · rank #56,007 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,007
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH chest
Nearest frequency peer: chest (-6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cocada”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- centopeia
centopeia
44,004 corpus weight
- chantagista
chantagista
44,003 corpus weight
- charque
charque
44,002 corpus weight
- chest
chest
44,000 corpus weight
- cocada
cocada
43,994 corpus weight
- congestiona…
congestionado
43,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cocada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cocada |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #56,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cocada” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cocada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,007 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cocada, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cocada, spelled C-O-C-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1doce de coco cujos ingredientes básicos são açúcar, manteiga e coco ralado, doce típico do Brasil
- 2porção de ovos
- 3pancada
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cocada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hugo Chávez tem tanta semelhança conosco como o alfajor argentino com a nossa cocada.
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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