cos
The verdict
“cos” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,810) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,810
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualquer coisa
Corpus desk
Index PT-cos · cos · Portuguese
cos · rank #27,810 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,810
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH credível
Nearest frequency peer: credível (+3 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 “cos”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- conspirar
conspirar
72,200 corpus weight
- contest
contest
72,198 corpus weight
- cos
cos
72,191 corpus weight
- credível
credível
72,188 corpus weight
- custom
custom
72,179 corpus weight
- dantes
dantes
72,176 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cos” 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 | cos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cos”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cos is neighbouring look-alikes ("cu", "CPI", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #27,810 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "qualquer coisa".
No generated misspelling entries exist for cos in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cu", "CPI", "cut", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cos, spelled C-O-S.
Definition
- 1qualquer coisa
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Cos to zase provedl?"
Antonyms
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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