Skip to main content

colocado

Portuguese, adjective/ko.loˈka.du/

colocado is spelled C-O-L-O-C-A-D-O (8 letters) and appears 32 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 2,772nd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colocado is a Portuguese adjective meaning “placed, put” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of colocar. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “posto no lugar onde deve permanecer”.

What does colocado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    placed, put

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of colocar

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. posto no lugar onde deve permanecer 2. que se encontra em determinado sítio 3. empregado 4. que arranjou emprego

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 colocado

  • colocada feminine
  • colocados masculine plural
  • colocadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce colocado?

  • Brazil /ko.loˈka.du/
  • Portugal /ku.luˈka.du/
  • Portugal [ku.luˈka.ðu]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is colocado in Portuguese?

colocado appears 32 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).

What to look up after colocado