cabaço
/ka.ˈba.su/
The verdict
“cabaço” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #52,010 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,010
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - fruto do cabaceiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-cabaco · cabaço · Portuguese
cabaço · rank #52,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,010
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caprichoso
Nearest frequency peer: caprichoso (+5 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 “cabaço”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- barn
barn
48,007 corpus weight
- Basis
Basis
48,005 corpus weight
- bou
bou
47,999 corpus weight
- cabaço
cabaço
47,991 corpus weight
- caprichoso
caprichoso
47,986 corpus weight
- caqui
caqui
47,985 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cabaço” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabaço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ka.ˈba.su/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cabaço” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cabaço is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #52,010 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ka.ˈba.su/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "fruto do cabaceiro".
No misspelling variants are generated for cabaço in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is cabaço, spelled C-A-B-A-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1fruto do cabaceiro
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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