oc
[ˈok]
The verdict
“oc” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,145) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,145
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Especie de flecha de que se servían antiguamente los turcos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oc · oc · Spanish
oc · rank #20,145 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,145
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH obtengan
Nearest frequency peer: obtengan (-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 “oc”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- obligue
obligue
79,859 corpus weight
- obtendrá
obtendrá
79,858 corpus weight
- obtengan
obtengan
79,857 corpus weight
- oc
oc
79,856 corpus weight
- ocasionar
ocasionar
79,855 corpus weight
- ocurriría
ocurriría
79,854 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oc” 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 | oc |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈok] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oc”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oc is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "of", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈok]. Frequency #20,145 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for oc in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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 explicit etymology string is stored 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 oc, spelled O-C.
Definition
- 1Especie de flecha de que se servían antiguamente los turcos.
- 2Flauta turca terminada en una bola.
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.