cabalvscasaWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#36,355
“cabal” frequency rank
#91
“casa” frequency rank
36446
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabal casa
Definition satisfatório; completo; rigoroso; pleno construção que serve de moradia

Letter map: cabal vs casa

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

5 ch
cabal
4 ch
casa

Role in the sentence - cabal and casa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cabal is anadjective and casaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 36446, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabal is recorded at frequency rank #36,355, classified as anadj. casa is at rank #91, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.zɐ/.

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 36446, this pair ranks #30,360 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabal vs casa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cabal": bl. Private to "casa": s.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabalacbal · caabl · caball · cabbal · cabla · cbaal · ccabal
  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cabal" and "casa" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cabal" is an adjective and "casa" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "cabal" or "casa"?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #91 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

You've compared "cabal" and "casa". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabal" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,360 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabal" and "casa" 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 #30,360 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