coifa
Portuguese, noun/ˈkoj.fɐ/
coifa is spelled C-O-I-F-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 73,054th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coifa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “coif (armour)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “touca, pano leve que cobre o cabelo, a cabeça”.
What does coifa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecoif (armour)
- 2
femininehood
- 3
femininehood (metal covering)
- 4
feminineroot cap
- 5
femininepayload fairing
- 6
femininekitchen hood, (UK) extractor hood, (US) range hood, (AU, NZ) rangehood, cooker hood, exhaust hood, oven hood
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. touca, pano leve que cobre o cabelo, a cabeça 2. membrana fetal que por vezes no nascimento recobre a cabeça do neonato 3. na lareira, exaustor do fumo em forma de grande funil invertido
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 coifa
- coifas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coifa?
- Brazil /ˈkoj.fɐ/
- Brazil [ˈkoɪ̯.fɐ]
- Portugal /ˈkoj.fɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coifa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coifa in Portuguese?
coifa appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).