cabalvscapazTell them apart

Which to use

“cabal” and “capaz” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#36,355
“cabal” frequency rank
#1,041
“capaz” frequency rank
37396
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabal capaz
Definition satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno que tem o conhecimento ou habilidade para fazer algo

Letter map: cabal vs capaz

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

5 ch
cabal
5 ch
capaz

Spelling & dictionary notes on cabal vs capaz

cabal and capaz are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37396, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabal is recorded at frequency rank #36,355, classified as anadj. capaz is at rank #1,041, tagged as anadj, pronounced /kɐ.ˈpaʃ/.

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 37396, this pair ranks #29,217 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabal vs capaz

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cabal": bl. Private to "capaz": pz.

"cabal" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "capaz" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabalacbal · caabl · caball · cabbal · cabla · cbaal · ccabal
  • capazacpaz · caapz · capazz · cappaz · capza · ccapaz · cpaaz

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cabal" for "capaz" ever safe?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "cabal" vs "capaz" - which ranks higher?
"capaz" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,041 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.

Useful next steps

Pair "cabal" vs "capaz" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "capaz" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,217 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabal" and "capaz" 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 #29,217 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