coitado
Portuguese, noun/kojˈta.du/
coitado is spelled C-O-I-T-A-D-O (7 letters) and appears 5.4 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 11,602nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Coitado is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “wretch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of coitar.
What does coitado mean in English?
adjective
- 1
pitiful, wretched
noun
- 1
masculinewretch
verb
- 1
past participle of coitar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
interjection: 1. exprime piedade ou dó
adjective: 1. infeliz 2. digno de pena
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 coitado
- coitada feminine
- coitados masculine plural
- coitadas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce coitado?
- Brazil /kojˈta.du/
- Brazil [koɪ̯ˈta.du]
- Portugal /kojˈta.du/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to coitado
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is coitado in Portuguese?
coitado appears 5.4 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).