cabeça
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#361
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cabeça is aPortuguesenoun. It means: parte do corpo humano, onde se localizam o cérebro, protegido pelo crânio, e a face, ligada ao tronco pelo pescoço Pronounced /kɐ.ˈbe.sɐ/. It ranks #361 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with caça and cabra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabeça |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈbe.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #361 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cabeça is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.ˈbe.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #361 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabeça, with forms such as "acbeça", "cabbeça", and "cabeaç". 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, "caça", "cabra", "caber", 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 cabeça, spelled C-A-B-E-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1parte do corpo humano, onde se localizam o cérebro, protegido pelo crânio, e a face, ligada ao tronco pelo pescoço
- 2faculdade de raciocinar conforme o estado de normalidade sem afetação devido a sentimento ou ânimo como a raiva, nervosismo, apatia, amor ou outros
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbeça,cabbeça,cabeaç,cabçea,caebça,cbaeça,ccabeça
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabeça
Misspelling Variants of "cabeça"
Frequency rank: #361 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: