casavsCasasTell them apart

Quick tell: casa is a noun, Casas is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“casa” is a noun and “Casas” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,082
“casa” frequency rank
#43,560
“Casas” frequency rank
57642
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casa Casas
Definition house A surname from Spanish.

Letter map: casa vs Casas

Shared letters muted; letters that set casa and Casas apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. casa runs 4 letters (CVCV) against Casas's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
casa
5 ch
Casas

Role in the sentence - casa and Casas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: casa is anoun and Casasaname. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “casa” sits inside “Casas”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57642, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casa is recorded at frequency rank #14,082, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈkɑːsə/. Casas is at rank #43,560, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 57642, this pair ranks #117,986 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of casa vs Casas

Shared letters: acs. Private to "casa": -. Private to "Casas": -.

"casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Casas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casa ← acsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa
  • Casas ← acsas · caass · casass · cassas · ccasas · csaas

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "casa" and "Casas" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casa" is a noun and "Casas" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "casa" or "Casas"?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,082 in our English list, against #43,560 for "Casas". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "casa" and "Casas". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Casas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #117,986 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casa" and "Casas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Casas vs cates". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #117,986 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list