Cabo Verde

//ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi// phrase

Letters

10 characters

Language

Portuguese

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Cabo Verde is aPortuguesephrase. It means: país formado por um arquipélago a noroeste da África, em que o português é língua oficial; sua capital é Praia; seu nome oficial é República de Cabo Verde Pronounced /ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi/.

Key facts for Cabo Verde
PropertyValue
HeadwordCabo Verde
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechPhrase
IPA/ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi/
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Cabo Verde is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Portuguese corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for Cabo Verde is 10 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Cabo Verde in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 Verde, spelled C-A-B-O- -V-E-R-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    país formado por um arquipélago a noroeste da África, em que o português é língua oficial; sua capital é Praia; seu nome oficial é República de Cabo Verde
  2. 2
    município brasileiro do estado de Minas Gerais

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Cabo Verde"?
"Cabo Verde" is spelled C-A-B-O- -V-E-R-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is /ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi/.
What does "Cabo Verde" mean?
As a phrase, "Cabo Verde" means: país formado por um arquipélago a noroeste da África, em que o português é língua oficial; sua capital é Praia; seu nome oficial é República de Cabo Verde
How do you pronounce "Cabo Verde"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Cabo Verde" is /ˈka.bu ˈveχ.ʤi/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Cabo Verde" come from?
"Cabo Verde" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.