taçavstoucaConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#3,807
“taça” frequency rank
#28,398
“touca” frequency rank
32205
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature taça touca
Definition copo de forma especial, de boca larga e pouco fundo, pode ter algo de pé pano leve que cobre o cabelo, usado por mulheres

Letter map: taça vs touca

Shared letters muted; letters that set taça and touca apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch
taça
5 ch
touca

Pair insight - taça / touca

taça and touca 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 32205, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

taça is recorded at frequency rank #3,807, classified as anoun. touca is at rank #28,398, tagged as anoun, pronounced /ˈtow.kɐ/.

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 32205, this pair ranks #35,674 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of taça vs touca

Shared letters: at. Private to "taça": ç. Private to "touca": cou.

"taça" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "touca" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • toucaotuca · tocua · touac · toucca · ttouca · tuoca

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "taça" and "touca" be used interchangeably?
No. They differ by 1 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: "taça" vs "touca" - which ranks higher?
"taça" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,807 in our Portuguese list, against #28,398 for "touca". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "taça" and "touca". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "taça" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "touca" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,674 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "taça" and "touca" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tónica vs touca". 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 #35,674 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