cosa
/'kɔ.sa/
The verdict
“cosa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,312) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,312
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - coisa
Corpus desk
Index PT-cosa · cosa · Portuguese
cosa · rank #31,312 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,312
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH consonância
Nearest frequency peer: consonância (-4 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 “cosa”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- cisterna
cisterna
68,709 corpus weight
- conclave
conclave
68,699 corpus weight
- consonância
consonância
68,693 corpus weight
- cosa
cosa
68,689 corpus weight
- descolar
descolar
68,676 corpus weight
- devassa
devassa
68,671 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cosa” 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 | cosa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /'kɔ.sa/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #31,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cosa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cosa is neighbouring look-alikes ("CSA", "cria", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /'kɔ.sa/. Frequency #31,312 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "coisa".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for cosa, with forms such as "ccosa", "cossa", and "csoa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSA", "cria", "cura", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is cosa, spelled C-O-S-A.
Definition
- 1coisa
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccosa
- cossa
- csoa
- ocsa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cosa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cosa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).