cola
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,105
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
cola is aSpanishnoun. It means: Apéndice posterior del cuerpo de muchas especies de vertebrados, formado por una prolongación del espinazo. Pronounced [ˈkola]. It ranks #2,105 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with con and com.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkola] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for cola is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkola]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,105 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 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 cola, with forms such as "ccola", "cloa", and "coal". 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, "con", "com", "cor", 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 cola, spelled C-O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Apéndice posterior del cuerpo de muchas especies de vertebrados, formado por una prolongación del espinazo.
- 2Conjunto de plumas de las aves en la región posterior del cuerpo o rabadilla.
- 3Más generalmente, parte del cuerpo diametralmente opuesta a la cabeza.
- 4Más generalmente, extremidad o apéndice posterior de un objeto.
- 5Hilera de personas que esperan turno para ser atendidos.
- 6Conjunto de las dos nalgas.
- 7Esfínter que cierra el orificio de salida del tracto digestivo.
- 8Pene.
- 9Último puesto en un concurso o clasificatoria.
- 10(Cortaderia selloana, sin. Gynerium argenteum) Planta herbácea nativa de las pampas sudamericanas, de hasta 3 m de alto, con hojas perennes de hasta de 2 m de largo, bordes filosos, de color verde azulado, y flores en panícula de color blanco.
- 11Última parte de un cigarrillo.
- 12Peinado que consiste en amarrar el cabello en la nuca, dejándolo caer al modo de la cola de un caballo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccola,cloa,coal,colla,ocla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for cola
Misspelling Variants of "cola"
Frequency rank: #2,105 in Spanish
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