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coco

Portuguese, noun

coco is spelled C-O-C-O (4 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 5,830th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “coconut (fruit of coco palm)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, cocô is a different word: “poo, poop (excrement)”. With an accent, cocó is a different word: “chicken”. With an accent, côco is a different word: “pre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal)…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “fruto gerado pelo coqueiro, muito usado para se fazer doces e para consumo de seu líquido”.

What does coco mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecoconut (fruit of coco palm)

  2. 2

    informalmasculinehead

  3. 3

    informalmasculinevulgartesticle

  4. 4

    Brazilmasculinepopular dance from Alagoas

noun

  1. 1

    masculinecoccus

noun

  1. 1

    masculinekoku

noun

as cocô
  1. 1

    informalmasculinepoo, poop (excrement)

  2. 2

    derogatorymasculinecrap (something of low quality)

noun

as cocó
  1. 1

    Brazilfemininechicken

noun

as cocó
  1. 1

    masculineEuropean Portuguese standard form of cocô

noun

as côco
  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1971 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of coco; now a common misspelling

verb

as coço
  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of coçar

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. fruto gerado pelo coqueiro, muito usado para se fazer doces e para consumo de seu líquido 2. coqueiro; planta palmácea que produz o coco¹ 3. cabeça, crânio 4. bactéria de formato esférico ou ovoide

noun: 1. fezes, excremento

noun: 1. o mesmo que cocô

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 coco

  • cocos plural
  • côco alternative
  • cocôs plural
  • cocó alternative Portugal
  • cocós plural
  • côcos plural
  • (Vocábulo com dupla acentuação gráfica: cocô) canonical

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to coco

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is coco in Portuguese?

coco appears 13 times per million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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