campavscampeãoConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#32,885
“campa” frequency rank
#1,634
“campeão” frequency rank
34519
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature campa campeão
Definition laje que cobre o sepulcro aquele que ganha uma competição

Letter map: campa vs campeão

Shared letters muted; letters that set campa and campeão apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. campa runs 5 letters (CVCCV) against campeão's 7 (CVCCVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
campa
7 ch
campeão

Spelling & dictionary notes on campa vs campeão

campa and campeão 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 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34519, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

campa is recorded at frequency rank #32,885, classified as anoun. campeão is at rank #1,634, tagged as anoun, pronounced /kɐ̃peɐ̃w/..

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 34519, this pair ranks #32,724 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of campa vs campeão

Shared letters: acmp. Private to "campa": -. Private to "campeão": eoã.

"campa" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "campeão" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • campa ← acmpa · camap · cammpa · camppa · capma · ccampa · cmapa

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "campa" and "campeão" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 2 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: "campa" vs "campeão" - which ranks higher?
"campeão" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,634 in our Portuguese list, against #32,885 for "campa". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pair "campa" vs "campeão" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "campa" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "campeão" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #32,724 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "campa" and "campeão" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "campa vs canja". 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 #32,724 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