carovscasaTell them apart

Quick tell: caro is a adjective, casa is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#2,178
“caro” frequency rank
#91
“casa” frequency rank
2269
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature caro casa
Definition cujo preço é elevado construção que serve de moradia

Letter map: caro vs casa

Shared letters muted; letters that set caro and casa apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
caro
4 ch
casa

Part-of-speech tell for caro / casa

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: caro is anadjective and casaanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 2269, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

caro is recorded at frequency rank #2,178, classified as anadj. casa is at rank #91, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.zɐ/.

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 2269, this pair ranks #73,167 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of caro vs casa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "caro": or. Private to "casa": s.

"caro" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • caroacro · caor · ccaro · crao
  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "caro" and "casa" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "caro" is an adjective and "casa" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "caro" vs "casa" - which ranks higher?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #91 in our Portuguese list, against #2,178 for "caro". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "caro" and "casa". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "caro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #73,167 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "caro" and "casa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "caro vs ciao". 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 #73,167 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