couce
The verdict
“couce” 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
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: leito do rio
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couce |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couce” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for couce is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 19 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for couce 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 couce, spelled C-O-U-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1leito do rio
- 2couce, coice, patada, pancada
- 3injúria
- 4brutalidade
- 5couce, coice, recuo da arma de fogo
- 6cabo, extremo de um objeto
- 7parte oposta à ponta
- 8extremo de uma série
- 9recanto entre casas, esquina de um grupo de casas
- 10gonzo de uma porta, parte da porta mais perto da zona dos gonzos
- 11nas ferramentas de corte, parte oposta ao gume
- 12nas embarcações, parte inferior da quilha
- 13bombordo da popa
- 14cabeçalha do carro
- 15no carro de bois, junta de bois adicional
- 16conteira de aguilhada
- 17pé de uma planta ou árvore, parte mais próxima ao terreno
- 18terrão com restos de raízes de uma planta
- 19resto da batata que foi usada para sementar depois de ter crescido na terra a planta
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Using “couce”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-O-U-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Nearby Portuguese words
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