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

#11,222
“cabra” frequency rank
#32,885
“campa” frequency rank
44107
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cabra campa
Definition quadrúpede mamífero e ruminante com numerosas raças selvagens laje que cobre o sepulcro

Letter map: cabra vs campa

Shared letters muted; letters that set cabra and campa apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. cabra and campa follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
cabra
5 ch
campa

Corpus notes: cabra and campa

cabra and campa 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 44107, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cabra is recorded at frequency rank #11,222, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.bɾɐ/. campa is at rank #32,885, tagged as anoun.

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 44107, this pair ranks #21,432 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cabra vs campa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cabra": br. Private to "campa": mp.

"cabra" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "campa" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cabra ← acbra · cabar · cabbra · cabrra · carba · cbara · ccabra
  • campa ← acmpa · camap · cammpa · camppa · capma · ccampa · cmapa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cabra" and "campa" 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.
Frequency check: "cabra" vs "campa" - which ranks higher?
"cabra" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,222 in our Portuguese list, against #32,885 for "campa". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "cabra" and "campa". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cabra" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #21,432 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cabra" and "campa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "campa vs canja". 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 #21,432 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