cacifo
/kɐ.ˈsi.fu/
The verdict
“cacifo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #86,229 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,229
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - arca, caixa, cofre, gaveta
Corpus desk
Index PT-cacifo · cacifo · Portuguese
cacifo · rank #86,229 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,229
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Brief
Nearest frequency peer: Brief (-11 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 “cacifo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- biberão
biberão
13,804 corpus weight
- Brief
Brief
13,783 corpus weight
- cacifo
cacifo
13,772 corpus weight
- chicana
chicana
13,748 corpus weight
- chicha
chicha
13,747 corpus weight
- colmo
colmo
13,728 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cacifo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cacifo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈsi.fu/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #86,229 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cacifo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cacifo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #86,229 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈsi.fu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for cacifo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is cacifo, spelled C-A-C-I-F-O.
Definition
- 1arca, caixa, cofre, gaveta
- 2quarto ou recanto pequeno em uma casa
- 3medida de grãos ou farinhas
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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