costado

noun

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The verdict

“costado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #73,837 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#73,837
frequency rank, Portuguese
2,140
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - dorso do corpo humano; costas, espinhaço

Corpus desk

Index PT-costado · costado · Portuguese

costado · rank #73,837 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #73,837
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,140
  • PHOTO-FINISH decálogo

Nearest frequency peer: decálogo (+20 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 “costado”

Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto

corpus weight

What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “costado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for costado
PropertyValue
Headwordcostado
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#73,837
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Cauda longa: rank de “costado” em português

A frequência vai do punhado de palavras do dia a dia (esquerda) à cauda longa quase nunca usada (direita).costadocai nesta cauda de raridade:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Os ticks avançam em logaritmo; cada um é da ordem de dez vezes mais raro. Vizinhos raros da mesma faixa: “decálogo” (#73,857), “deflagrar” (#73,861), “depravado” (#73,865). Entre 2,140 lemas com “C”, “costado” fica em #73,837. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

costado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #73,837 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for costado in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is costado, spelled C-O-S-T-A-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    dorso do corpo humano; costas, espinhaço
  2. 2
    parte externa do casco do navio
  3. 3
    flanco ou lado da fuselagem
  4. 4
    cada um dos quatro avós de um indivíduo
  5. 5
    encosta
  6. 6
    peso que cabe na consciência de cada um; responsabilidade
  7. 7
    parede de um tanque

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how costado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Já tem várias mortes no costado.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "costado"?
"costado" is spelled C-O-S-T-A-D-O.
What does "costado" mean?
As a noun, "costado" means: dorso do corpo humano; costas, espinhaço
What language does "costado" come from?
"costado" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "costado", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

evasiva#73,943alpiste#73,693grammar#74,000whether#73,642

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list