cotovia
/ku.tu.ˈvi.ɐ/
The verdict
“cotovia” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,230 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,230
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pequena ave campestre cinzenta que canta de madrugada e é uma espécie de calhandra
Corpus desk
Index PT-cotovia · cotovia · Portuguese
cotovia · rank #57,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,230
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH constrição
Nearest frequency peer: constrição (-9 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 “cotovia”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- chilique
chilique
42,802 corpus weight
- clorofórmio
clorofórmio
42,797 corpus weight
- constrição
constrição
42,780 corpus weight
- cotovia
cotovia
42,771 corpus weight
- degola
degola
42,755 corpus weight
- deliciar
deliciar
42,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cotovia” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cotovia |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku.tu.ˈvi.ɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cotovia” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cotovia is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,230 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ku.tu.ˈvi.ɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "pequena ave campestre cinzenta que canta de madrugada e é uma espécie de calhandra".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cotovia, 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 entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cotovia, spelled C-O-T-O-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1pequena ave campestre cinzenta que canta de madrugada e é uma espécie de calhandra
This word in other languages
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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