costa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#841
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
costa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Región de tierra seca fronteriza con el mar o, por extensión, con una masa de agua (río, lago, etc.). Pronounced [ˈkost̪a]. It ranks #841 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with CTA and Cota.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | costa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkost̪a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for costa is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkost̪a]. Corpus data places it at rank #841 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for costa, with forms such as "ccosta", "cosat", and "cossta". 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, "CTA", "Cota", "Cova", 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 costa, spelled C-O-S-T-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Región de tierra seca fronteriza con el mar o, por extensión, con una masa de agua (río, lago, etc.).
- 2Herramienta dura, por lo general de madera, que tiene muescas en los extremos y se emplea en zapatería para alisar y pulir suelas.
- 3Orilla o costado del cuerpo o de las montañas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccosta,cosat,cossta,costta,cotsa,csota,ocsta
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for costa
Misspelling Variants of "costa"
Frequency rank: #841 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter C in our Spanish index: