kakao
/ˈka.ka.ɔ/.
The verdict
“kakao” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #88,342 among 95 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,342
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 95
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - cacau
Corpus desk
Index PT-kakao · kakao · Portuguese
kakao · rank #88,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,342
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 95
- PHOTO-FINISH istmo
Nearest frequency peer: istmo (-17 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “kakao”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- immediate
immediate
11,715 corpus weight
- incubar
incubar
11,707 corpus weight
- istmo
istmo
11,676 corpus weight
- kakao
kakao
11,659 corpus weight
- leporino
leporino
11,641 corpus weight
- majo
majo
11,617 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “kakao” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kakao |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈka.ka.ɔ/. |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “kakao” em português
Rare enough to double-check
kakao is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #88,342 among 95 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈka.ka.ɔ/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "cacau".
No misspelling variants are generated for kakao in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is kakao, spelled K-A-K-A-O.
Definition
- 1cacau
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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