caballero
/ka.βaˈʝe.ɾo/ ou /ka.βaˈʎe.ɾo/
The verdict
“caballero” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #50,938 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,938
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cavaleiro
Corpus desk
Index PT-caballero · caballero · Portuguese
caballero · rank #50,938 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,938
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cabaça
Nearest frequency peer: cabaça (+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 “caballero”
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 “caballero” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caballero |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ka.βaˈʝe.ɾo/ ou /ka.βaˈʎe.ɾo/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,938 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “caballero” em português
Rare enough to double-check
caballero is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #50,938 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ka.βaˈʝe.ɾo/ ou /ka.βaˈʎe.ɾo/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
caballero doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is caballero, spelled C-A-B-A-L-L-E-R-O.
Definition
- 1cavaleiro
- 2cavalheiro
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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