coa
[ˈkoa]
The verdict
“coa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,945) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,945
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrumento de labranza, similar en su forma a un palo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-coa · coa · Spanish
coa · rank #35,945 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,945
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH clarinete
Nearest frequency peer: clarinete (-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 “coa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- circunvalac…
circunvalación
64,059 corpus weight
- cirrosis
cirrosis
64,058 corpus weight
- clarinete
clarinete
64,057 corpus weight
- coa
coa
64,056 corpus weight
- cobalto
cobalto
64,055 corpus weight
- cojines
cojines
64,054 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “coa” 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 | coa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkoa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #35,945 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “coa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for coa is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈkoa]. Frequency #35,945 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for coa in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "con", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is coa, spelled C-O-A.
Definition
- 1Instrumento de labranza, similar en su forma a un palo.
- 2Jerga utilizada por los delincuentes chilenos.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).