cação
/ka.'soŋ/ ou /ka.'θoŋ/
The verdict
“cação” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #65,336 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,336
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - qualifica a pessoa forte e robusta
Corpus desk
Index PT-cacao · cação · Portuguese
cação · rank #65,336 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,336
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH cette
Nearest frequency peer: cette (+6 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “cação”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- bocejar
bocejar
34,690 corpus weight
- bávaro
bávaro
34,676 corpus weight
- cação
cação
34,665 corpus weight
- cette
cette
34,659 corpus weight
- chibata
chibata
34,652 corpus weight
- chifrudo
chifrudo
34,651 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cação” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cação |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ka.'soŋ/ ou /ka.'θoŋ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cação” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cação is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #65,336 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ka.'soŋ/ ou /ka.'θoŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "qualifica a pessoa forte e robusta".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cação, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is cação, spelled C-A-Ç-Ã-O.
Definition
- 1qualifica a pessoa forte e robusta
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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