epa
[ˈepa]
The verdict
“epa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,394) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,394
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voz de advertencia o llamado de atención ante algo inadecuado o peligroso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-epa · epa · Spanish
epa · rank #19,394 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,394
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH entusiastas
Nearest frequency peer: entusiastas (-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 “epa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- encargadas
encargadas
80,610 corpus weight
- enojados
enojados
80,609 corpus weight
- entusiastas
entusiastas
80,608 corpus weight
- epa
epa
80,607 corpus weight
- establecía
establecía
80,606 corpus weight
- estandarte
estandarte
80,605 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “epa” 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 | epa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈepa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,394 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “epa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for epa is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈepa]. Frequency #19,394 among 5,243 “E” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for epa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "eu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is epa, spelled E-P-A.
Definition
- 1Voz de advertencia o llamado de atención ante algo inadecuado o peligroso.
- 2Introduce un mandato, una orden, especialmente para detenerse.
- 3Sirve para manifestar alegría y entusiasmo.
- 4Indica sorpresa o extrañeza.
- 5Fórmula de saludo familiar.
- 6Manifiesta rechazo o molestia.
This word in other languages
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).