cochicho
Portuguese, noun/koˈʃi.ʃu/
cochicho is spelled C-O-C-H-I-C-H-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese, the 114,804th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cochicho is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “whisper” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of cochichar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “pássaro da família dos conirostros”.
What does cochicho mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewhisper
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of cochichar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. pássaro da família dos conirostros 2. instrumento infantil cujo som imita a voz do cochicho¹ 3. pequena casa, aposento muito estreito 4. chapéu velho
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.
Forms of cochicho
- cochichos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cochicho?
- Brazil /koˈʃi.ʃu/
- Portugal /kuˈʃi.ʃu/
- Portugal /kutˈʃit.ʃu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is cochicho in Portuguese?
cochicho appears about once in every 14 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).