capa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,617
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
capa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Prenda de ropa, larga y sin mangas que se ciñe a los hombros o al cuello. Pronounced [ˈkapa]. It ranks #3,617 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with cup and cat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | capa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkapa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,617 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for capa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkapa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,617 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for capa, with forms such as "acpa", "caap", and "cappa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cat", "car", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is capa, spelled C-A-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prenda de ropa, larga y sin mangas que se ciñe a los hombros o al cuello.
- 2Cierta proporción de una sustancia que cubre o envuelve a otra.
- 3Disposición de la embarcación que hallándose en el mar, y no faltando viento, no anda o no navega, y está poco menos que parada. Esta maniobra se hace o por precisión o por conveniencia: lo primero sucede cuando es forzoso aguantar un temporal; y lo segundo cuando se quiere esperar a alguna otra embarcación , o con otros fines. Esta última capa se distingue de la otra con los nombres de facha y pairo.
- 4Gratificación que además del flete se da al capitán de un buque mercante que trasporta o carga géneros a su bordo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acpa,caap,cappa,ccapa,cpaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for capa
Misspelling Variants of "capa"
Frequency rank: #3,617 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: