cajadovscassadoTell them apart

Quick tell: cajado is a noun, cassado is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“cajado” is a noun and “cassado” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#30,862
“cajado” frequency rank
#27,391
“cassado” frequency rank
58253
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cajado cassado
Definition amparo de pastor, geralmente com a ponta superior em arco; bordão: cancelado, anulado, revogado

Letter map: cajado vs cassado

Shared letters muted; letters that set cajado and cassado apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. cajado runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against cassado's 7 (CVCCVCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
cajado
7 ch
cassado

Part-of-speech tell for cajado / cassado

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: cajado is anoun and cassadoanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58253, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cajado is recorded at frequency rank #30,862, classified as anoun. cassado is at rank #27,391, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ka.ˈsa.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 58253, this pair ranks #8,847 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of cajado vs cassado

Shared letters: acdo. Private to "cajado": j. Private to "cassado": s.

"cajado" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "cassado" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cajado ← acjado · caajdo · cajaddo · cajaod · cajdao · cajjado · ccajado · cjaado
  • cassado ← acssado · casado · casasdo · cassaddo · cassaod · cassdao · ccassado · csasado

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "cajado" and "cassado" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "cajado" is a noun and "cassado" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "cajado" vs "cassado" - which ranks higher?
"cassado" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #27,391 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

You've compared "cajado" and "cassado". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cajado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cassado" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #8,847 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cajado" and "cassado" 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 #8,847 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