cogente
Portuguese, adjective
cogente is spelled C-O-G-E-N-T-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese, the 211,654th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cogente is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “cogent (forcefully persuasive)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que constrange”.
What does cogente mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinecogent (forcefully persuasive)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que constrange 2. diz-se do argumento cujas premissas são todas verdadeiras e que satisfaz, racionalmente e de maneira coerciva, as necessidades do entendimento 3. diz-se das regras que devem ser integralmente cumpridas - sem alterações ou exclusões por vontade das partes - por terem argumentos cogentes (sic - cogente da acepção 2)
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 cogente
- cogentes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to cogente
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cogente in Portuguese?
cogente appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).