cachovscampoConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#35,472
“cacho” frequency rank
#488
“campo” frequency rank
35960
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cacho campo
Definition conjunto de flores ou frutos que têm um eixo comum região fora da cidade

Where the eye mixes cacho and campo

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. cacho and campo follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
cacho
5 ch
campo

Look-alike desk: cacho vs campo

A purely visual mix-up. cacho (/ˈka.ʃu/) and campo (/ˈkɐ̃.pu/) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35960, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cacho is recorded at frequency rank #35,472, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.ʃu/. campo is at rank #488, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈkɐ̃.pu/.

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 35960, this pair ranks #30,967 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cacho vs campo

Shared letters: aco. Private to "cacho": h. Private to "campo": mp.

"cacho" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "campo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cacho ← caccho · cachho · cacoh · cahco · ccacho · ccaho
  • campo ← acmpo · cammpo · camop · camppo · capmo · ccampo · cmapo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cacho" for "campo" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (/ˈka.ʃu/ versus /ˈkɐ̃.pu/) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cacho" or "campo" show up more?
"campo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #488 in our Portuguese list, against #35,472 for "cacho". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "cacho" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #30,967 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cacho" and "campo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cacho 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 #30,967 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