caspa
[ˈkaspa]
The verdict
“caspa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #33,479. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,479
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sustancia blanquecina que se forma en el cabello por acumulación de piel muerta.
Corpus desk
Index ES-caspa · caspa · Spanish
caspa · rank #33,479 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,479
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH casuales
Nearest frequency peer: casuales (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “caspa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- carpinteros
carpinteros
66,525 corpus weight
- Carrero
Carrero
66,524 corpus weight
- caspa
caspa
66,522 corpus weight
- casuales
casuales
66,521 corpus weight
- casualidades
casualidades
66,520 corpus weight
- catar
catar
66,519 corpus weight
What this shows “caspa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | caspa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaspa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “caspa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around caspa (IPA [ˈkaspa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,479 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for caspa, with forms such as "acspa", "casap", and "casppa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cosa", "Copa", "caza", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is caspa, spelled C-A-S-P-A.
Definition
- 1Sustancia blanquecina que se forma en el cabello por acumulación de piel muerta.
- 2Costra que queda tras las enfermedades cutáneas.
- 3Residuos superficiales que se deprenden antes de la fundición del cobre.
- 4Cierto musgo de la corteza de los árboles.
- 5Persona de baja estofa, chusma.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acspa
- casap
- casppa
- casspa
- ccaspa
- csapa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of caspa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).