cotarão
The verdict
“cotarão” is outside the top-ranked Portuguese vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: cume de um monte; montículo grande ou mais elevado de uma série
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotarão |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ko.ta.'ɾoŋ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cotarão” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cotarão is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ko.ta.'ɾoŋ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "cume de um monte; montículo grande ou mais elevado de uma série".
No misspelling variants are generated for cotarão in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is cotarão, spelled C-O-T-A-R-Ã-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1cume de um monte; montículo grande ou mais elevado de uma série
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Using “cotarão”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-T-A-R-Ã-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ko.ta.'ɾoŋ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby Portuguese words
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