casco
/ˈkaʃ.ku/
The verdict
“casco” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #14,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,093
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - invólucro do crânio
Corpus desk
Index PT-casco · casco · Portuguese
casco · rank #14,093 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,093
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH caneca
Nearest frequency peer: caneca (-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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “casco”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- bird
bird
85,921 corpus weight
- boicote
boicote
85,918 corpus weight
- bíblico
bíblico
85,912 corpus weight
- caneca
caneca
85,910 corpus weight
- casco
casco
85,908 corpus weight
- contribuído
contribuído
85,895 corpus weight
What this shows “casco” 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 | casco |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaʃ.ku/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “casco”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around casco (IPA /ˈkaʃ.ku/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,093 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for casco, with forms such as "acsco", "cacso", and "cascco". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "caso", "coco", "case", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is casco, spelled C-A-S-C-O.
Definition
- 1invólucro do crânio
- 2navio sem mastros nem aparelho
- 3pé de alguns animais, como cavalos, vacas, etc.
- 4recipiente para líquido
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acsco
- cacso
- cascco
- casoc
- cassco
- ccasco
- csaco
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of casco - 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 "casco", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).