cepa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,055
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cepa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Parte más gruesa del tronco, o tallo, adherida a las raíces y que queda bajo tierra. Pronounced [ˈsepa]. Often confused with cup and cha.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cepa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsepa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cepa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsepa]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,055 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 cepa, with forms such as "ccepa", "ceap", and "ceppa". 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", "cha", "CPU", 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 cepa, spelled C-E-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parte más gruesa del tronco, o tallo, adherida a las raíces y que queda bajo tierra.
- 2Tronco de la vid.
- 3Por extensión, toda la planta de la vid.
- 4Por analogía con el tronco subterráneo, parte inicial de las astas o de la cola de un animal.
- 5Origen de una familia, casta o linaje.
- 6Arranque del machón o pilar, desde el suelo hasta la imposta en la que se asienta un arco.
- 7Grupo de plantas o árboles que nacen de una misma raíz y tienen un tronco común.
- 8Agujero o cavidad abierta en el suelo.
- 9Conjunto de microorganismos de una especie o subespecie específica, originados a partir de una misma muestra o célula, que presentan características como virulencia, resistencia a un antibiótico, velocidad de crecimiento, mutaciones, etc.
- 10Parte central de una nube que amenaza tormenta.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccepa,ceap,ceppa,cpea,ecpa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cepa
Misspelling Variants of "cepa"
Frequency rank: #19,055 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: