Goa
/ˈgo.a/
The verdict
“Goa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,632) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,632
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Goa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-goa · Goa · Spanish
Goa · rank #33,632 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,632
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH grass
Nearest frequency peer: grass (+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 “Goa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Giraldo
Giraldo
66,373 corpus weight
- gladiadores
gladiadores
66,372 corpus weight
- Goa
Goa
66,369 corpus weight
- grass
grass
66,368 corpus weight
- gravar
gravar
66,367 corpus weight
- guarniciones
guarniciones
66,365 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Goa” 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 | Goa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈgo.a/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #33,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Goa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Goa is neighbouring look-alikes ("gr", "gu", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ˈgo.a/. Frequency #33,632 among 1,728 “G” headwords. Gloss: "Goa.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Goa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "gr", "gu", "gol", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Goa, spelled G-O-A.
Definition
- 1Goa.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).