coto
/ˈko.tʊ/
The verdict
“coto” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,424 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,424
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - que está sem dedos, sem mãos, maneta
Corpus desk
Index PT-coto · coto · Portuguese
coto · rank #50,424 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,424
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH criticismo
Nearest frequency peer: criticismo (+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 “coto”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- coto
coto
49,577 corpus weight
- criticismo
criticismo
49,573 corpus weight
- cádmio
cádmio
49,568 corpus weight
- declamação
declamação
49,563 corpus weight
- delatar
delatar
49,559 corpus weight
- delimitado
delimitado
49,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “coto” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coto |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈko.tʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “coto” em português
Rare enough to double-check
coto is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,424 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈko.tʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "que está sem dedos, sem mãos, maneta".
No misspelling variants are generated for coto in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is coto, spelled C-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1que está sem dedos, sem mãos, maneta
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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