cadavscarWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: cada is a pronoun, car is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#144
“cada” frequency rank
#7,505
“car” frequency rank
7649
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cada car
Definition indica, individualizando, um elemento de um grupo ou conjunto: carro

Letter map: cada vs car

Shared letters muted; letters that set cada and car apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
cada
3 ch
car

Role in the sentence - cada and car

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cada is apronoun and caranoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7649, 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/. car is at rank #7,505, 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 7649, this pair ranks #66,446 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of cada vs car

Shared letters: ac. Private to "cada": d. Private to "car": r.

"cada" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "car" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cadaacda · caad · cadda · ccada · cdaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cada" for "car" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cada" is a pronoun and "car" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "cada" or "car"?
"cada" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #144 in our Portuguese list, against #7,505 for "car". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

You've compared "cada" and "car". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cada" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "car" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,446 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cada" and "car" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "car vs chau". 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 #66,446 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