cajadovscasacoWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#30,862
“cajado” frequency rank
#6,510
“casaco” frequency rank
37372
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cajado casaco
Definition amparo de pastor, geralmente com a ponta superior em arco; bordão: peça de vestuário que os homens usam sobre a camisa ou o colete e as mulheres por cima do vestido

Letter map: cajado vs casaco

Shared letters muted; letters that set cajado and casaco apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. cajado and casaco follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
cajado
6 ch
casaco

Pair insight - cajado / casaco

cajado and casaco 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37372, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cajado is recorded at frequency rank #30,862, classified as anoun. casaco is at rank #6,510, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɐ.ˈza.ku/.

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 37372, this pair ranks #29,252 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cajado vs casaco

Shared letters: aco. Private to "cajado": dj. Private to "casaco": s.

"cajado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "casaco" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cajado ← acjado · caajdo · cajaddo · cajaod · cajdao · cajjado · ccajado · cjaado
  • casaco ← acsaco · caasco · casacco · casaoc · cascao · cassaco · ccasaco · csaaco

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cajado" and "casaco" be used interchangeably?
No. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "cajado" vs "casaco" - which ranks higher?
"casaco" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,510 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.

After this comparison

Pair "cajado" vs "casaco" 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 "casaco" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #29,252 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cajado" and "casaco" 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 #29,252 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