coqueluche

noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,436

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

coqueluche is aPortuguesenoun. It means: doença altamente contagiosa e perigosa para crianças causada pela bactéria Bordetella pertussis, prevenível por vacinação, que causa tosse violenta, contínua e dolorosa

Key facts for coqueluche
PropertyValue
Headwordcoqueluche
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#75,436
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of coqueluche in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for coqueluche is 10 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #75,436 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for coqueluche in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 coqueluche, spelled C-O-Q-U-E-L-U-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    doença altamente contagiosa e perigosa para crianças causada pela bactéria Bordetella pertussis, prevenível por vacinação, que causa tosse violenta, contínua e dolorosa
  2. 2
    modismo momentâneo

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #75,436 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coqueluche"?
"coqueluche" is spelled C-O-Q-U-E-L-U-C-H-E.
What does "coqueluche" mean?
As a noun, "coqueluche" means: doença altamente contagiosa e perigosa para crianças causada pela bactéria Bordetella pertussis, prevenível por vacinação, que causa tosse violenta, contínua e dolorosa
What language does "coqueluche" come from?
"coqueluche" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.