cool
The verdict
“cool” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,163) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,163
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fresco
Corpus desk
Index PT-cool · cool · Portuguese
cool · rank #10,163 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,163
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cova
Nearest frequency peer: cova (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “cool”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- concorrente
concorrente
89,842 corpus weight
- cool
cool
89,838 corpus weight
- cova
cova
89,837 corpus weight
- Cyrus
Cyrus
89,836 corpus weight
- delgado
delgado
89,834 corpus weight
- desafiar
desafiar
89,833 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cool” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cool |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cool”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cool is neighbouring look-alikes ("cor", "cos", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #10,163 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cool, with forms such as "ccool", "col", and "cooll". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cor", "cos", "copa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cool, spelled C-O-O-L.
Definition
- 1fresco
- 2legal
- 3indiferente, frio no trato interpessoal
- 4calmo
- 5leve, fresco, primaveril
- 6fresco
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cool appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O, that’s cool!
Cool clothing
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccool
- col
- cooll
- ocol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cool - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cool", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).