ka
/ˈka/
The verdict
“ka” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #11,901) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,901
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nome dos kana か e カ
Corpus desk
Index PT-ka · ka · Portuguese
ka · rank #11,901 · 0 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,901
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH kiss
Nearest frequency peer: kiss (+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 “ka”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- imortal
imortal
88,109 corpus weight
- imperatriz
imperatriz
88,108 corpus weight
- ISBN
ISBN
88,102 corpus weight
- ka
ka
88,100 corpus weight
- kiss
kiss
88,099 corpus weight
- levemente
levemente
88,094 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ka” 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 | ka |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈka/ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #11,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ka”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ka is neighbouring look-alikes ("ki", "ko", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /ˈka/. Frequency #11,901 among 95 “K” headwords. Gloss: "nome dos kana か e カ".
ka doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "ki", "ko", "ke", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Portuguese form is ka, spelled K-A.
Definition
- 1nome dos kana か e カ
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.