cabecear
The verdict
“cabecear” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #69,398 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,398
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bater com a cabeça em algum objeto, com o objetivo de direcionar ou redirecionar a sua trajetória
Corpus desk
Index PT-cabecear · cabecear · Portuguese
cabecear · rank #69,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH borin
Nearest frequency peer: borin (-7 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 “cabecear”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- biela
biela
30,617 corpus weight
- boboca
boboca
30,611 corpus weight
- borin
borin
30,610 corpus weight
- cabecear
cabecear
30,603 corpus weight
- capelo
capelo
30,591 corpus weight
- castellano
castellano
30,587 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cabecear” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| 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) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cabecear” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cabecear is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #69,398 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cabecear appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Com pouco mais de um minuto, o lateral Júlio César roubou a bola no meio campo, carregou em velocidade até a linha de fundo e cruzou para Henrique, que cabeceou firme para marcar o segundo gol do Botafogo, seu primeiro gol pelo clube.
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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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