Which one should you use?
While cocô is the common word for poop, fezes is the formal, medical term for feces. For a technical and precise way to describe fecal residue, you can use resíduo fecal. If you want to refer to the formal process of evacuating waste through the intestines, use eliminação intestinal. To refer generally to waste excreted by the body, you can use the formal term excremento.
Is there a formal and an informal way to say it?
cocô is an informal and childish term. It is the standard word used when speaking with children or in casual settings. For more formal or technical situations, use fezes, excremento, resíduo fecal or eliminação intestinal.
Related words
How does it change in a sentence?
cocô is a masculine noun. To express the childish verb 'to poop' or 'to defecate', use the phrase fazer cocô.
How do you pronounce it?
/koˈko/
Did you know?
- While English speakers say 'to go to the bathroom', a Portuguese speaker might simply say fazer as necessidades, which literally means 'to do one's needs'.
- In many Brazilian households, instead of saying 'poop', people use the euphemism número dois (number two) to avoid saying the word entirely in front of others.
- While cocô is used for children, adults in Brazil often use the slang term merda in much more heated or aggressive contexts to express frustration or to insult someone.
Examples in context
- O cachorro fez cocô?Did the dog poop?This sentence shows how to ask if a dog pooped using cocô.Tatoeba #6467100 by heo598, translation #6466711 by Eccles17
- O meu carro está coberto de cocô de pomba.My car is covered with pigeon poop.This sentence uses cocô to describe a car covered in pigeon poop.Tatoeba #1539834 by alexmarcelo, translation #1540535 by Chevere33
- No meu mundo todos são pôneis, eles comem arco-íris e o cocô deles são borboletas.In my world everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies.This sentence uses cocô in a whimsical context about ponies.Tatoeba #1194679 by Imp, translation #1194666 by Imp
- 1 more sentence on Tatoeba
Example conversation
Gabriel and Camila are talking about their pet puppy.
- GabrielO cachorro deixou um cocô no tapete.The dog left some poop on the rug.
- CamilaNossa, que sujeira!Wow, what a mess!
- GabrielEu preciso limpar esse cocô agora.I need to clean up this poop now.
- CamilaDeixa que eu te ajudo, Gabriel.Let me help you, Gabriel.
Sources
- Wiktionary, “poop” translations and entries cocô, CC BY-SA 4.0, dump of 2026-09-26.
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
