caraças
/kɐ.ˈɾa.sɐʃ/
The verdict
“caraças” is a moderately-common Portuguese word, ranked #33,314 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #33,314
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 7
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa ironia, admiração ou impaciência
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 | caraças |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /kɐ.ˈɾa.sɐʃ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caraças” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for caraças is 7 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /kɐ.ˈɾa.sɐʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #33,314 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa ironia, admiração ou impaciência".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for caraças, with forms such as "acraças", "caarças", and "caraaçs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "caras", "careca", "casaca", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is caraças, spelled C-A-R-A-Ç-A-S.
Definition
- 1expressa ironia, admiração ou impaciência
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acraças,caarças,caraaçs,caraçass,caraçsa,carraças,carçaas,ccaraças,craaças
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caraças - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “caraças”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is C-A-R-A-Ç-A-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /kɐ.ˈɾa.sɐʃ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “caras” - see the side-by-side comparison. caraças vs caras
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.