cabecear
The verdict
“cabecear” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #69,398 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #69,398
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - bater com a cabeça em algum objeto, com o objetivo de direcionar ou redirecionar a sua trajetória
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabecear |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cabecear” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cabecear is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. Corpus data places it at rank #69,398 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cabecear, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is cabecear, spelled C-A-B-E-C-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1bater com a cabeça em algum objeto, com o objetivo de direcionar ou redirecionar a sua trajetória
- 2apresentar ato reflexo de trazer a cabeça e/ou cabeça e tronco à posição ereta depois de os ter deixado inclinar repentinamente por perda momentânea do estado de vigília
Synonyms
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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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Using “cabecear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-B-E-C-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.