cabalvscaçaWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: cabal is a adjective, caça is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cabal” is an adjective and “caça” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,355
“cabal” frequency rank
#2,823
“caça” frequency rank
39178
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabal caça
Definition satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno desporto que consiste em caçar animais

Letter map: cabal vs caça

Shared letters muted; letters that set cabal and caça apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
cabal
4 ch
caça

Part-of-speech tell for cabal / caça

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cabal is anadjective and caçaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39178, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabal is recorded at frequency rank #36,355, classified as anadj. caça is at rank #2,823, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.sɐ/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 39178, this pair ranks #27,130 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabal vs caça

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cabal": bl. Private to "caça": ç.

"cabal" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "caça" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabalacbal · caabl · caball · cabbal · cabla · cbaal · ccabal

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cabal" for "caça" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cabal" is an adjective and "caça" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cabal" or "caça" show up more?
"caça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,823 in our Portuguese list, against #36,355 for "cabal". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "cabal" and "caça".

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "caça" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #27,130 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabal" and "caça" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cabal vs caudal". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #27,130 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list