oca
[ˈoka]
The verdict
“oca” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,772) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,772
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-oca · oca · Spanish
oca · rank #17,772 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,772
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH observamos
Nearest frequency peer: observamos (-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 “oca”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- need
need
82,232 corpus weight
- nulidad
nulidad
82,231 corpus weight
- observamos
observamos
82,230 corpus weight
- oca
oca
82,229 corpus weight
- okay
okay
82,228 corpus weight
- olores
olores
82,227 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oca” 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 | 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oca”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oca is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "of", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈoka]. Frequency #17,772 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for oca 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is oca, spelled O-C-A.
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.
Synonyms
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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