cop
/kɒp/
The verdict
“cop” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,809) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,809
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atrapar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-cop · cop · Spanish
cop · rank #24,809 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,809
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH controvertida
Nearest frequency peer: controvertida (-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 “cop”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- contratacio…
contrataciones
75,195 corpus weight
- contribuyan
contribuyan
75,194 corpus weight
- controverti…
controvertida
75,193 corpus weight
- cop
cop
75,192 corpus weight
- coronada
coronada
75,191 corpus weight
- coronavirus
coronavirus
75,190 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “cop” 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 | cop |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kɒp/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,809 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “cop”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for cop is neighbouring look-alikes ("CV", "cu", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /kɒp/. Frequency #24,809 among 8,288 “C” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for cop in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "CV", "cu", "cup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is cop, spelled C-O-P.
Definition
- 1Atrapar.
- 2Robar.
- 3Comprar estupefacientes.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).