cabo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,092
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cabo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: patente militar abaixo do sargento e acima do soldado It ranks #1,092 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with co and cão.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cabo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for cabo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #1,092 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for cabo, with forms such as "acbo", "cabbo", and "caob". 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, "co", "cão", "can", 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 cabo, spelled C-A-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1patente militar abaixo do sargento e acima do soldado
- 2protuberância pela qual se segura um utensílio
- 3promontório
- 4fim
- 5feixe de fios, corda
- 6réstia de alhos ou cebolas
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acbo,cabbo,caob,cbao,ccabo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cabo
Misspelling Variants of "cabo"
Frequency rank: #1,092 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: