caco

noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#21,952

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

caco is aPortuguesenoun. It means: fragmento ou pedaço quebrado de louça, barro, vidro, mármore etc Often confused with co and CC.

Key facts for caco
PropertyValue
Headwordcaco
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#21,952
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for caco is 4 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #21,952 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 14 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 caco, with forms such as "acco", "cacco", and "caoc". 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", "CC", "cão", 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 caco, spelled C-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    fragmento ou pedaço quebrado de louça, barro, vidro, mármore etc
  2. 2
    qualquer fragmento ou estilhaço
  3. 3
    vaso de barro ou outra alfaia de pouco valor (também usado no plural)
  4. 4
    a parte ou porção restante de algo já gasto pelo uso ou desgastado pelo tempo (por exemplo, utensílio)
  5. 5
    pessoa alquebrada, doente, muito magra, que já não tem ânimo ou encantos físicos; pessoa muito velha ou envelhecida
  6. 6
    bom senso, juízo, cabeça
  7. 7
    pó que se prepara torrando tabaco e a seguir moendo-o num pedaço de louça; tabaco-de-caco
  8. 8
    dente muito cariado, ou o que resta dele, ou que está por extrair
  9. 9
    espécie de lombilho (apeiro) ou arreio de montaria em geral
  10. 10
    monóculo, especialmente quando usado apenas como adorno
  11. 11
    o muco do nariz, ressecado e solidificado
  12. 12
    fragmento de telha, ladrilho, mármore etc. empregado em revestimentos ou para tornar mais consistente a argamassa
  13. 13
    revestimento ou técnica de revestimento ou pavimentação em que se utilizam fragmentos desse tipo dispostos sobre uma camada de argamassa semelhante a um mosaico
  14. 14
    fala mais ou menos breve que o ator ou atriz acrescenta ou substitui, por conta própria, à do texto original, geralmente improvisando durante a apresentação, para realçar ou introduzir efeito cômico, dramático ou outro; bexigada

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acco,cacco,caoc,ccaco,ccao

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caco

Misspelling Variants of "caco"

acco4cacco5caoc4ccaco5ccao4
Misspelling Variants of "caco"

Frequency rank: #21,952 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "caco"?
"caco" is spelled C-A-C-O.
What does "caco" mean?
As a noun, "caco" means: fragmento ou pedaço quebrado de louça, barro, vidro, mármore etc
What words are commonly confused with "caco"?
"caco" is commonly confused with "co", "CC", "cão". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "caco" come from?
"caco" 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.