corpão
Portuguese, noun/koʁˈpɐ̃w̃/
corpão is spelled C-O-R-P-Ã-O (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese, the 52,034th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Corpão is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “augmentative of corpo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “aumentativo de corpo”.
What does corpão mean in English?
noun
- 1
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. aumentativo de corpo 2. corpaço
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 corpão
- corpões plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce corpão?
- Brazil /koʁˈpɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [kohˈpɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- /koɾˈpɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is corpão in Portuguese?
corpão appears about once in every 2 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).