cosseno
/ku.ˈse.nu/
The verdict
“cosseno” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #72,350 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,350
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - em relação a um dos ângulos agudos de um triângulo retângulo, é o resultado da divisão do valor do cateto adjacente a este ângulo pelo valor da hipotenusa
Corpus desk
Index PT-cosseno · cosseno · Portuguese
cosseno · rank #72,350 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,350
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH corrimento
Nearest frequency peer: corrimento (-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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cosseno”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- clava
clava
27,680 corpus weight
- contramestre
contramestre
27,661 corpus weight
- cooptar
cooptar
27,657 corpus weight
- corrimento
corrimento
27,655 corpus weight
- cosseno
cosseno
27,651 corpus weight
- cumulativam…
cumulativamente
27,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cosseno” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cosseno |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.ˈse.nu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cosseno” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cosseno is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #72,350 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ku.ˈse.nu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
cosseno doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is cosseno, spelled C-O-S-S-E-N-O.
Definition
- 1em relação a um dos ângulos agudos de um triângulo retângulo, é o resultado da divisão do valor do cateto adjacente a este ângulo pelo valor da hipotenusa
- 2projeção no eixo horizontal, num plano cartesiano ortogonal, do segmento de reta que parte da origem dos eixos (horizontal e vertical) até o ponto de encontro com a circunferência de valor de raio 1 (e centro na origem dos eixos)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cosseno appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
cossenodôangulo=catetoadjacente/hipotenusa
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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