coisa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#105
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
coisa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: qualquer objeto inanimado; em sentido filosófico, coisa é tudo aquilo subsistente por si mesmo; a filosofia kantiana afirma ser uma coisa aquilo que existe independentemente do espírito; no sentido... Pronounced [ˈkojzɐ]. It ranks #105 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with CSA and cos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coisa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkojzɐ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for coisa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkojzɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #105 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for coisa, with forms such as "ccoisa", "ciosa", and "coias". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSA", "cos", "copa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is coisa, spelled C-O-I-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1qualquer objeto inanimado; em sentido filosófico, coisa é tudo aquilo subsistente por si mesmo; a filosofia kantiana afirma ser uma coisa aquilo que existe independentemente do espírito; no sentido usual, como para o Direito, coisa é tudo aquilo que, percebido pelos sentidos, pode apresentar utilidade para o homem, caso em que se chama bem material
- 2o que existe ou pode existir
- 3algo que não se sabe, não se quer, não se faz questão de, ou não se lembra como nomear pelo nome dedicado
- 4situação
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccoisa,ciosa,coias,coissa,cosia,ocisa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "coisa"
Frequency rank: #105 in Portuguese
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