cabidevscaídoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: cabide is a noun, caído is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#36,785
“cabide” frequency rank
#8,017
“caído” frequency rank
44802
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabide caído
Definition suporte no qual se colocam roupas que caiu

Letter map: cabide vs caído

Shared letters muted; letters that set cabide and caído apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cabide runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against caído's 5 (CVVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
cabide
5 ch
caído

Part-of-speech tell for cabide / caído

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cabide is anoun and caídoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44802, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabide is recorded at frequency rank #36,785, classified as anoun, pronounced /ka.ˈbi.de/. caído is at rank #8,017, tagged as anadj.

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 44802, this pair ranks #20,624 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabide vs caído

Shared letters: acd. Private to "cabide": bei. Private to "caído": oí.

"cabide" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "caído" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabide ← acbide · cabbide · cabdie · cabidde · cabied · caibde · cbaide · ccabide

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cabide" and "caído" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cabide" is a noun and "caído" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cabide" or "caído" show up more?
"caído" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,017 in our Portuguese list, against #36,785 for "cabide". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "cabide" vs "caído" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabide" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "caído" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,624 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabide" and "caído" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cabide vs cabina". 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 #20,624 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