cada vs campa, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“cada” is a pronoun and “campa” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#144
“cada” frequency rank: #32,885
“campa” frequency rank: 33029
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	cada	campa
Definition	indica, individualizando, um elemento de um grupo ou conjunto:	laje que cobre o sepulcro

Letter map: cada vs campa

Shared letters muted; letters that set cada and campa apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch

cada

5 ch

campa

Part-of-speech tell for cada / campa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cada is apronoun and campaanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33029, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cada is recorded at frequency rank #144, classified as apron, pronounced /ˈkɐ.dɐ/. 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 33029, this pair ranks #34,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cada vs campa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cada": d. Private to "campa": mp.

"cada" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "campa" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

cada ← acda · caad · cadda · ccada · cdaa
campa ← acmpa · camap · cammpa · camppa · capma · ccampa · cmapa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cada" and "campa" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cada" is a pronoun and "campa" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary Portuguese text, does "cada" or "campa" show up more?

"cada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #144 in our Portuguese list, against #32,885 for "campa". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "cada" and "campa".

Full dictionary entry for "cada" 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 #34,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"cada" 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 #34,604 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.