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Which to use

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

#45,765
“conca” frequency rank
#3,001
“cunha” frequency rank
48766
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature conca cunha
Definition recipiente grande de barro peça de metal ou madeira dura, em forma de prisma agudo em um dos lados, e que se insere no vértice de um corte para melhor fender algum material, bem como para calçar, nivelar, ajustar um peça qualquer

Letter map: conca vs cunha

Shared letters muted; letters that set conca and cunha apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
conca
5 ch
cunha

Pair insight - conca / cunha

conca and cunha 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 48766, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

conca is recorded at frequency rank #45,765, classified as anoun. cunha is at rank #3,001, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈku.ɲɐ/.

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 48766, this pair ranks #16,380 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of conca vs cunha

Shared letters: acn. Private to "conca": o. Private to "cunha": hu.

"conca" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "cunha" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • concacconca · cnoca · cocna · conac · concca · connca · ocnca
  • cunhaccunha · cnuha · cuhna · cunah · cunhha · cunnha · ucnha

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "conca" and "cunha" be used interchangeably?
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.
In ordinary Portuguese text, does "conca" or "cunha" show up more?
"cunha" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,001 in our Portuguese list, against #45,765 for "conca". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

You've compared "conca" and "cunha". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "conca" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "cunha" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #16,380 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "conca" and "cunha" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "conca vs copta". 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 #16,380 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