causa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#340
in Portuguese word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
causa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aquilo ou aquele que ocasiona um acontecimento ou faz que uma coisa exista Pronounced /ˈkaw.zɐ/. It ranks #340 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with CSA and cura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | causa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaw.zɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for causa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkaw.zɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #340 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for causa, with forms such as "acusa", "casua", and "cauas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CSA", "cura", "cuba", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is causa, spelled C-A-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aquilo ou aquele que ocasiona um acontecimento ou faz que uma coisa exista
- 2princípio
- 3origem
- 4motivo, razão, pretexto
- 5partido
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acusa,casua,cauas,caussa,ccausa,cuasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for causa
Misspelling Variants of "causa"
Frequency rank: #340 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Portuguese index: