cabinevscarneTell them apart

Which to use

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

#8,582
“cabine” frequency rank
#1,700
“carne” frequency rank
10282
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabine carne
Definition o mesmo que cabina tecido muscular do homem e dos animais

Where the eye mixes cabine and carne

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. cabine runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against carne's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
cabine
5 ch
carne

Visual trap between cabine and carne

A purely visual mix-up. cabine (/ka.ˈbi.nɨ/) and carne (/ˈkaɾ.nɨ/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10282, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabine is recorded at frequency rank #8,582, classified as anoun, pronounced /ka.ˈbi.nɨ/. carne is at rank #1,700, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈkaɾ.nɨ/.

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 10282, this pair ranks #62,874 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cabine vs carne

Shared letters: acen. Private to "cabine": bi. Private to "carne": r.

"cabine" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "carne" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabine ← acbine · cabbine · cabien · cabinne · cabnie · caibne · cbaine · ccabine
  • carne ← acrne · canre · caren · carnne · carrne · ccarne · crane

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cabine" for "carne" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/ka.ˈbi.nɨ/ versus /ˈkaɾ.nɨ/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "cabine" or "carne"?
"carne" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,700 in our Portuguese list, against #8,582 for "cabine". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "cabine" and "carne" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabine" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "carne" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #62,874 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabine" and "carne" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cabina vs cabine". 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 #62,874 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