Oa
[ˈoa]
The verdict
“Oa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,777) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,777
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apellido.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oa · Oa · Spanish
Oa · rank #32,777 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,777
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH Nájera
Nearest frequency peer: Nájera (-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 “Oa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- novel
novel
67,228 corpus weight
- nutricionis…
nutricionista
67,227 corpus weight
- nutritivo
nutritivo
67,226 corpus weight
- Nájera
Nájera
67,225 corpus weight
- Oa
Oa
67,224 corpus weight
- oliendo
oliendo
67,221 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Oa” 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 | Oa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈoa] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #32,777 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Oa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Oa is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "of", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈoa]. Frequency #32,777 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Apellido.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Oa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "of", "ok", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Oa, spelled O-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido.
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.