cap
/t͡sap/
The verdict
“cap” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,259) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,259
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - bode ou carneiro, especialmente velho ou castrado
Corpus desk
Index PT-cap · cap · Portuguese
cap · rank #7,259 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,259
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calmo
Nearest frequency peer: calmo (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “cap”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- but
but
92,747 corpus weight
- calmo
calmo
92,744 corpus weight
- cap
cap
92,742 corpus weight
- condicionado
condicionado
92,740 corpus weight
- confusa
confusa
92,739 corpus weight
- coro
coro
92,737 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cap” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cap |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /t͡sap/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,259 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cap”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cap is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "ce", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /t͡sap/. Frequency #7,259 among 2,140 “C” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
cap doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "ce", "cu", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is cap, spelled C-A-P.
Definition
- 1bode ou carneiro, especialmente velho ou castrado
- 2o macho da camurça ou da corça
- 3homem lascivo (especialmente velho)
- 4homem barbudo
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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