eca
The verdict
“eca” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,275) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,275
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,279
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa nojo
Corpus desk
Index PT-eca · eca · Portuguese
eca · rank #13,275 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,275
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,279
- PHOTO-FINISH electronic
Nearest frequency peer: electronic (+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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “eca”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- discordar
discordar
86,730 corpus weight
- doi
doi
86,729 corpus weight
- donde
donde
86,728 corpus weight
- eca
eca
86,726 corpus weight
- electronic
electronic
86,725 corpus weight
- engravidar
engravidar
86,722 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “eca” against nearest ranked Portuguese headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | eca |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,275 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Onde “eca” fica na frequência do português
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eca is neighbouring look-alikes ("em", "eu", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection. Frequency #13,275 among 1,279 “E” headwords. Gloss: "expressa nojo".
Zero misspellings are on record for eca in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "em", "eu", "el", 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is eca, spelled E-C-A.
Definition
- 1expressa nojo
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how eca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eca! Que nojo! Eu não posso comer isso!
This word in other languages
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 "eca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).