colpa
Spanish, noun
colpa is spelled C-O-L-P-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish, the 162,009th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colpa is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “colcothar used as a flux for silver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of colpar. With an accent, colpá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of colpar”.
What does colpa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecolcothar used as a flux for silver
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of colpar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of colpa
- colpas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is colpa in Spanish?
colpa appears about once in every 19 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).