coqueluche
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
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coqueluche |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #75,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1doença altamente contagiosa e perigosa para crianças causada pela bactéria Bordetella pertussis, prevenível por vacinação, que causa tosse violenta, contínua e dolorosa
- 2modismo momentâneo
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Frequency rank: #75,436 in Portuguese
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