cocada

noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cocada” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cocada
PropertyValue
Headwordcocada
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#56,007
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “cocada” em português

Esta escala corre do núcleo do português quotidiano (esquerda) até o rastro de formas raras (direita).cocadacai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

A escala é logarítmica (cada marca ≈ 10× mais rara). Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “chest” (#56,001), “charque” (#55,999), “chantagista” (#55,998). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “cocada” fica em #56,007. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    doce de coco cujos ingredientes básicos são açúcar, manteiga e coco ralado, doce típico do Brasil
  2. 2
    porção de ovos
  3. 3
    pancada

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cocada appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cocada"?
"cocada" is spelled C-O-C-A-D-A.
What does "cocada" mean?
As a noun, "cocada" means: doce de coco cujos ingredientes básicos são açúcar, manteiga e coco ralado, doce típico do Brasil
What language does "cocada" come from?
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cocada", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list