Which to use
“café” and “casa” are a confusable Portuguese pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #931
- “café” frequency rank
- #91
- “casa” frequency rank
- 1022
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | café | casa |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | fruto gerado pelo cafeeiro | construção que serve de moradia |
Where the eye mixes café and casa
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. café and casa follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: café vs casa
A purely visual mix-up. café (/kɐ.ˈfɛ/) and casa (/ˈka.zɐ/) 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 1022, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
café is recorded at frequency rank #931, classified as anoun, pronounced /kɐ.ˈfɛ/. casa is at rank #91, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.zɐ/.
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 1022, this pair ranks #74,612 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of café vs casa
Shared letters: ac. Private to "café": fé. Private to "casa": s.
"café" · 4 letters · shape CVCV · "casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- casa ← acsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "café" and "casa" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "café" or "casa" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "café" and "casa" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "café" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "casa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #74,612 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "café" and "casa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "canja vs casa". 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 #74,612 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.