casavscassarWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#91
“casa” frequency rank
#34,183
“cassar” frequency rank
34274
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature casa cassar
Definition construção que serve de moradia impedir que produza efeitos, anular, revogar (direitos políticos, mandatos, licenças, etc.):

Where the eye mixes casa and cassar

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.

4 ch
casa
6 ch
cassar

Look-alike desk: casa vs cassar

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: casa is /ˈka.zɐ/ while cassar is /ka.ˈsaɾ/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34274, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

casa is recorded at frequency rank #91, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈka.zɐ/. cassar is at rank #34,183, tagged as averb, pronounced /ka.ˈsaɾ/.

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 34274, this pair ranks #33,040 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of casa vs cassar

Shared letters: acs. Private to "casa": -. Private to "cassar": r.

"casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "cassar" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa
  • cassaracssar · casar · casasr · cassarr · cassra · ccassar · csasar

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "casa" and "cassar" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "casa" is a noun and "cassar" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "casa" vs "cassar" - which ranks higher?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #91 in our Portuguese list, against #34,183 for "cassar". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cassar" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #33,040 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "casa" and "cassar" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "cassada vs cassar". 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 #33,040 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