caçado vs cassado, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#38,617
“caçado” frequency rank: #27,391
“cassado” frequency rank: 66008
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	caçado	cassado
Definition	que foi abatido em uma caça	cancelado, anulado, revogado

Same sound, different letters: caçado vs cassado

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. caçado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against cassado's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch

caçado

7 ch

cassado

Homophone desk: caçado vs cassado

This is the hard kind. caçado and cassado are pronounced identically (/ka.ˈsa.du/) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66008, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

caçado is recorded at frequency rank #38,617, classified as anadj, pronounced /ka.ˈsa.du/. cassado is at rank #27,391, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ka.ˈsa.du/.

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 66008, this pair ranks #5,146 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of caçado vs cassado

Shared letters: acdo. Private to "caçado": ç. Private to "cassado": s.

"caçado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV · "cassado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

cassado ← acssado · casado · casasdo · cassaddo · cassaod · cassdao · ccassado · csasado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "caçado" and "cassado" be used interchangeably?

No. They are pronounced the same (/ka.ˈsa.du/), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "caçado" or "cassado"?

"cassado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,391 in our Portuguese list, against #38,617 for "caçado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

Full dictionary entry for "caçado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "cassado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #5,146 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"caçado" and "cassado" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "caçado vs caução". 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 #5,146 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.