oca
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,772
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
oca is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ánsar común domesticado. Se cría para aprovechar su carne, huevos e hígado, este último materia prima del paté o foie gras. Es un ave de tamaño mediano, con cuerpo robusto y plumaje blanco, gris o ... Pronounced [ˈoka]. Often confused with os and of.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoka] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oca is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈoka]. Corpus data places it at rank #17,772 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for oca in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "of", "ok", 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 oca, spelled O-C-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ánsar común domesticado. Se cría para aprovechar su carne, huevos e hígado, este último materia prima del paté o foie gras. Es un ave de tamaño mediano, con cuerpo robusto y plumaje blanco, gris o pardo. Tiene cuello arqueado y pico grueso, con color encendido, lo mismo que sus patas que están adaptadas para la natación.
- 2Juego de mesa tradicional en que se deben recorrer casillas según lo indiquen las tiradas de un dado y hay una oca₁ dibujada cada nueve espacios.
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Frequency rank: #17,772 in Spanish
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