capa
/ˈka.pɐ/
The verdict
“capa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,840. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,840
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo de capar
Corpus desk
Index PT-capa · capa · Portuguese
capa · rank #1,840 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,840
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH calor
Nearest frequency peer: calor (-1 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “capa”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- almoço
almoço
98,166 corpus weight
- bela
bela
98,164 corpus weight
- cadeia
cadeia
98,163 corpus weight
- calor
calor
98,162 corpus weight
- capa
capa
98,161 corpus weight
- chegada
chegada
98,159 corpus weight
What this shows “capa” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | capa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈka.pɐ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “capa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around capa (IPA /ˈka.pɐ/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,840 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for capa, with forms such as "acpa", "caap", and "cappa". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "chá", "car", "cat", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists 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 capa, spelled C-A-P-A.
Definition
- 1terceira pessoa do singular do presente do indicativo de capar
- 2segunda pessoa do singular do modo imperativo de capar
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acpa
- caap
- cappa
- ccapa
- cpaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of capa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "capa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).