cabo

noun

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.

Key facts for cabo
PropertyValue
Headwordcabo
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,092
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of cabo in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    patente militar abaixo do sargento e acima do soldado
  2. 2
    protuberância pela qual se segura um utensílio
  3. 3
    promontório
  4. 4
    fim
  5. 5
    feixe de fios, corda
  6. 6
    réstia de alhos ou cebolas

This word in other languages

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"

acbo4cabbo5caob4cbao4ccabo5
Misspelling Variants of "cabo"

Frequency rank: #1,092 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cabo"?
"cabo" is spelled C-A-B-O.
What does "cabo" mean?
As a noun, "cabo" means: patente militar abaixo do sargento e acima do soldado
What words are commonly confused with "cabo"?
"cabo" is commonly confused with "co", "cão", "can". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "cabo" come from?
"cabo" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Portuguese words

Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.