cabaça
/kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/
The verdict
“cabaça” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #50,939 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #50,939
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - fruta produzida pela cabaceira; nome cientifico: Lagenaria vulgaris
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabaça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cabaça” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cabaça is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #50,939 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cabaça, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is cabaça, spelled C-A-B-A-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1fruta produzida pela cabaceira; nome cientifico: Lagenaria vulgaris
- 2recipiente feito com a fruta da cabaceira
- 3tipo de cachimbo utilizado para fumar maconha
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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Using “cabaça”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-B-A-Ç-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.