compa
[ˈkõmpa]
The verdict
“compa” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #14,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,311
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de compadre.
Corpus desk
Index ES-compa · compa · Spanish
compa · rank #14,311 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,311
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH comento
Nearest frequency peer: comento (-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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “compa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- castigos
castigos
85,693 corpus weight
- comento
comento
85,691 corpus weight
- compa
compa
85,690 corpus weight
- compatibles
compatibles
85,689 corpus weight
- componer
componer
85,688 corpus weight
- compraste
compraste
85,687 corpus weight
What this shows “compa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | compa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkõmpa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “compa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around compa (IPA [ˈkõmpa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,311 among 8,288 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de compadre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for compa, with forms such as "ccompa", "cmopa", and "comap". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cop", "cosa", "Copa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is compa, spelled C-O-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1Variante de compadre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccompa
- cmopa
- comap
- commpa
- comppa
- copma
- ocmpa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of compa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "compa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).