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.
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
- cabal ← acbal · caabl · caball · cabbal · cabla · cbaal · ccabal
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "cabal" for "caça" ever safe?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cabal" or "caça" show up more?
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.