cagaço
/kɐ.ˈɡa.su/
The verdict
“cagaço” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #75,362 among 2,140 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,362
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - susto, muito medo, pavor
Corpus desk
Index PT-cagaco · cagaço · Portuguese
cagaço · rank #75,362 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,362
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calva
Nearest frequency peer: calva (+4 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 “cagaço”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- Brasile
Brasile
24,655 corpus weight
- breed
breed
24,652 corpus weight
- breque
breque
24,651 corpus weight
- cagaço
cagaço
24,639 corpus weight
- calva
calva
24,635 corpus weight
- capoeirista
capoeirista
24,626 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “cagaço” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cagaço |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈɡa.su/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,362 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “cagaço” em português
Rare enough to double-check
cagaço is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #75,362 among 2,140 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɐ.ˈɡa.su/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "susto, muito medo, pavor".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for cagaço, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Portuguese form is cagaço, spelled C-A-G-A-Ç-O.
Definition
- 1susto, muito medo, pavor
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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