cabovscasaConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#1,092
“cabo” frequency rank
#91
“casa” frequency rank
1183
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabo casa
Definition patente militar abaixo do sargento e acima do soldado construção que serve de moradia

Letter map: cabo vs casa

Shared letters muted; letters that set cabo and casa apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
cabo
4 ch
casa

Corpus notes: cabo and casa

cabo and casa 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 1183, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabo is recorded at frequency rank #1,092, classified as anoun. 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 1183, this pair ranks #74,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cabo vs casa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cabo": bo. Private to "casa": s.

"cabo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • caboacbo · cabbo · caob · cbao · ccabo
  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cabo" and "casa" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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.
Which is more common, "cabo" or "casa"?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #91 in our Portuguese list, against #1,092 for "cabo". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabo" 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 #74,416 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabo" and "casa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cabo vs ciao". 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 #74,416 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