Cea
[ˈsea]
The verdict
“Cea” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,129) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,129
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cea · Cea · Spanish
Cea · rank #32,129 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,129
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH cen
Nearest frequency peer: cen (+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 “Cea”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- catequesis
catequesis
67,875 corpus weight
- caíste
caíste
67,874 corpus weight
- Cea
Cea
67,872 corpus weight
- cen
cen
67,871 corpus weight
- centinelas
centinelas
67,870 corpus weight
- Chinese
Chinese
67,869 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Cea” 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 | Cea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsea] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,129 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Cea”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Cea is neighbouring look-alikes ("co", "CV", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈsea]. Frequency #32,129 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Cea has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "co", "CV", "ch", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Cea, spelled C-E-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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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