cajadovscaldoTell them apart

Which to use

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

#30,862
“cajado” frequency rank
#13,677
“caldo” frequency rank
44539
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cajado caldo
Definition amparo de pastor, geralmente com a ponta superior em arco; bordão: alimento líquido que se prepara cozendo em água substâncias alimentícias

Letter map: cajado vs caldo

Shared letters muted; letters that set cajado and caldo apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. cajado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against caldo's 5 (CVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
cajado
5 ch
caldo

Pair insight - cajado / caldo

cajado and caldo are indexed as a confusable Portuguese pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44539, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cajado is recorded at frequency rank #30,862, classified as anoun. caldo is at rank #13,677, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈkaɫ.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 44539, this pair ranks #20,921 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cajado vs caldo

Shared letters: acdo. Private to "cajado": j. Private to "caldo": l.

"cajado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "caldo" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cajado ← acjado · caajdo · cajaddo · cajaod · cajdao · cajjado · ccajado · cjaado
  • caldo ← acldo · cadlo · calddo · calldo · calod · ccaldo · clado

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "cajado" and "caldo" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "cajado" vs "caldo" - which ranks higher?
"caldo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,677 in our Portuguese list, against #30,862 for "cajado". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Pair "cajado" vs "caldo" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cajado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "caldo" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,921 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cajado" and "caldo" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cagão vs cajado". 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 #20,921 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