caçamba
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#32,099
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
caçamba is aPortuguesenoun. It means: balde (preso numa corda enrolada num sarilho ou nora para tirar água dos poços) Often confused with caramba and caxumba.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caçamba |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for caçamba is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #32,099 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for caçamba, with forms such as "acçamba", "caaçmba", and "caçabma". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "caramba", "caxumba", 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 caçamba, spelled C-A-Ç-A-M-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1balde (preso numa corda enrolada num sarilho ou nora para tirar água dos poços)
- 2qualquer balde
- 3alcatruz
- 4estribo em forma de chinelo
- 5espécie de cangalhas
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acçamba,caaçmba,caçabma,caçamab,caçambba,caçammba,caçmaba,ccaçamba,cçaamba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caçamba
Misspelling Variants of "caçamba"
Frequency rank: #32,099 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
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