moça
Portuguese, noun
moça is spelled M-O-Ç-A (4 letters) and appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,317th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Moça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “girl, young lady” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its cedilla, moca is a different word: “mocha (a type of strong Arabian coffee)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “mulher jovem”.
What does moça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegirl, young lady
noun
- 1
masculinemocha (a type of strong Arabian coffee)
- 2
masculinemocha (a coffee drink with chocolate)
noun
- 1
feminineclub (heavy stick used as a weapon)
- 2
Brazilfemininemockery; ridicule; derision
- 3
Portugalcolloquialfemininetrip (drug-induced intoxicated state)
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. torpe, pasmão
noun: 1. cacete com uma massa na extremidade, cacheira 2. pancada dada na cabeça dada com os nós dos dedos 3. parte do mangual por onde se segura 4. a parte grossa do fuso de fiar
noun: 1. Cidade na República Dominicana.
pronoun: 1. pronome informal de tratamento dirigido a uma mulher jovem que não se conhece
noun: 1. mulher jovem 2. garçonete
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of moça
- mocas plural
- moças plural
- moço masculine
- moços masculine plural
- Mo.ca canonical
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to moça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is moça in Portuguese?
moça appears 26 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).