asa
[ˈasa]
The verdict
“asa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,157) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,157
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Proyección, generalmente curva, en el costado de un recipiente, por la cual este puede asirse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asa · asa · Spanish
asa · rank #18,157 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,157
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH arrestaron
Nearest frequency peer: arrestaron (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “asa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ari
ari
81,847 corpus weight
- arrestaron
arrestaron
81,845 corpus weight
- asa
asa
81,844 corpus weight
- atribuido
atribuido
81,843 corpus weight
- aumentará
aumentará
81,842 corpus weight
- autonómica
autonómica
81,841 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “asa” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈasa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “asa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for asa is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈasa]. Frequency #18,157 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
asa has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "at", "av", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is asa, spelled A-S-A.
Definition
- 1Proyección, generalmente curva, en el costado de un recipiente, por la cual este puede asirse.
- 2Razón o circunstancia por las que se justifica una acción o una reacción.
- 3Oreja.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).