cado
/ˈka.doː/
The verdict
“cado” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #83,585 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,585
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cair
Corpus desk
Index PT-cado · cado · Portuguese
cado · rank #83,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,585
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calhambeque
Nearest frequency peer: calhambeque (+2 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 “cado”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- awe
awe
16,461 corpus weight
- bastidor
bastidor
16,446 corpus weight
- beliscão
beliscão
16,439 corpus weight
- botina
botina
16,423 corpus weight
- cado
cado
16,416 corpus weight
- calhambeque
calhambeque
16,414 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cado” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cado |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈka.doː/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cado” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cado is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #83,585 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈka.doː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cado, a sign its spelling follows regular Portuguese conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is cado, spelled C-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1cair
- 2decair
- 3morrer
- 4parar, cessar
- 5(impessoal) acontecer
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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