cabal

adj

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#36,355

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

cabal is anPortugueseadj. It means: satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno Often confused with cal and casa.

Key facts for cabal
PropertyValue
Headwordcabal
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechAdj
Letters5
Frequency rank#36,355
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cabal in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for cabal is 5 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #36,355 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabal, with forms such as "acbal", "caabl", and "caball". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cal", "casa", "cada", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is cabal, spelled C-A-B-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acbal,caabl,caball,cabbal,cabla,cbaal,ccabal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabal

Misspelling Variants of "cabal"

acbal5caabl5caball6cabbal6cabla5cbaal5ccabal6
Misspelling Variants of "cabal"

Frequency rank: #36,355 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabal"?
"cabal" is spelled C-A-B-A-L.
What does "cabal" mean?
As an adj, "cabal" means: satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno
What words are commonly confused with "cabal"?
"cabal" is commonly confused with "cal", "casa", "cada". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cabal" come from?
"cabal" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.