cocada
The verdict
“cocada” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #56,007 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,007
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - doce de coco cujos ingredientes básicos são açúcar, manteiga e coco ralado, doce típico do Brasil
| 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) |
Where “cocada” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cocada is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #56,007 among 3,948 “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
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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Using “cocada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-C-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.