cargosvscarnesTell them apart

Which to use

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

#4,049
“cargos” frequency rank
#14,794
“carnes” frequency rank
18843
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature cargos carnes
Definition plural de cargo plural de carne

Letter map: cargos vs carnes

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

6 ch
cargos
6 ch
carnes

Spelling & dictionary notes on cargos vs carnes

cargos and carnes 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 18843, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

cargos is recorded at frequency rank #4,049, classified as anoun. carnes is at rank #14,794, tagged as anoun.

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 18843, this pair ranks #52,047 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of cargos vs carnes

Shared letters: acrs. Private to "cargos": go. Private to "carnes": en.

"cargos" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC  ·  "carnes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • cargos ← acrgos · cagros · carggos · cargoss · cargso · carogs · carrgos · ccargos
  • carnes ← acrnes · canres · carens · carness · carnnes · carnse · carrnes · ccarnes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "cargos" for "carnes" ever safe?
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: "cargos" vs "carnes" - which ranks higher?
"cargos" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,049 in our Portuguese list, against #14,794 for "carnes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "cargos" vs "carnes" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "cargos" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "carnes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #52,047 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "cargos" and "carnes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "carnes vs Ceres". 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 #52,047 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