cabaça
/kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/
The verdict
“cabaça” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,939 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,939
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fruta produzida pela cabaceira; nome cientifico: Lagenaria vulgaris
Corpus desk
Index PT-cabaca · cabaça · Portuguese
cabaça · rank #50,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,939
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caballero
Nearest frequency peer: caballero (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cabaça”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bisneto
bisneto
49,078 corpus weight
- bombordo
bombordo
49,072 corpus weight
- botafoguense
botafoguense
49,071 corpus weight
- bucho
bucho
49,069 corpus weight
- caballero
caballero
49,063 corpus weight
- cabaça
cabaça
49,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cabaça” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cabaça” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cabaça is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,939 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈba.sɐ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
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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