cat
/kʰaʰt̪/
The verdict
“cat” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,740) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,740
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 2,140
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - gato (Felis catus)
Corpus desk
Index PT-cat · cat · Portuguese
cat · rank #7,740 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,740
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,140
- PHOTO-FINISH Caroline
Nearest frequency peer: Caroline (-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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “cat”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bo
bo
92,265 corpus weight
- boxe
boxe
92,264 corpus weight
- Caroline
Caroline
92,262 corpus weight
- cat
cat
92,261 corpus weight
- caverna
caverna
92,260 corpus weight
- compensação
compensação
92,257 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “cat” 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 | cat |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʰaʰt̪/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “cat”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cat is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "ce", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kʰaʰt̪/. Frequency #7,740 among 2,140 “C” headwords. Gloss: "gato (Felis catus)".
cat has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "ce", "cu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is cat, spelled C-A-T.
Definition
- 1gato (Felis catus)
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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