corpanzil
Portuguese, noun/koʁ.pɐ̃ˈziw/
corpanzil is spelled C-O-R-P-A-N-Z-I-L (9 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese, the 225,105th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corpanzil is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “a large, bulky body, or a person with such a body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also an augmentative of corpo. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “corpo volumoso”.
What does corpanzil mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea large, bulky body, or a person with such a body
- 2
masculineaugmentative of corpo
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. corpo volumoso
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 corpanzil
- corpanzis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corpanzil?
- Brazil /koʁ.pɐ̃ˈziw/
- Brazil [koh.pɐ̃ˈziʊ̯]
- /koɾ.pɐ̃ˈziw/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is corpanzil in Portuguese?
corpanzil appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).