caçavscrackWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: caça is a noun, crack is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“caça” is a noun and “crack” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#2,823
“caça” frequency rank
#11,042
“crack” frequency rank
13865
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature caça crack
Definition desporto que consiste em caçar animais craquear

Letter map: caça vs crack

Shared letters muted; letters that set caça and crack apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
caça
5 ch
crack

Grammar separator: caça vs crack

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: caça is anoun and crackaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13865, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

caça is recorded at frequency rank #2,823, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.sɐ/. crack is at rank #11,042, tagged as averb.

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 13865, this pair ranks #58,351 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of caça vs crack

Shared letters: ac. Private to "caça": ç. Private to "crack": kr.

"caça" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "crack" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • crackcarck · ccrack · cracck · crackk · crakc · crcak · crrack · rcack

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "caça" for "crack" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "caça" is a noun and "crack" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "caça" or "crack" show up more?
"caça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #2,823 in our Portuguese list, against #11,042 for "crack". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "caça" vs "crack" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "caça" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "crack" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #58,351 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "caça" and "crack" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "crack vs crawl". 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 #58,351 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