cabível
The verdict
“cabível” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #57,180 among 3,948 “C” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,180
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 3,948
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - que cabe; que é adequado ou apropriado
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabível |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,180 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cabível” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
cabível is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #57,180 among 3,948 “C” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for cabível in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 cabível, spelled C-A-B-Í-V-E-L.
Definition
- 1que cabe; que é adequado ou apropriado
- 2que pode ser aceito ou admitido; pertinente
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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 “cabível”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-B-Í-V-E-L - 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.