ocupa
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,066
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
ocupa is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ocupar. Pronounced [oˈkupa]. It ranks #3,066 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with opa and ocupó.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ocupa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈkupa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ocupa is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈkupa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,066 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ocupa, with forms such as "coupa", "occupa", and "ocpua". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "opa", "ocupó", "Osuna", 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 ocupa, spelled O-C-U-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ocupar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de ocupar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: coupa,occupa,ocpua,ocuap,ocuppa,oucpa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ocupa
Misspelling Variants of "ocupa"
Frequency rank: #3,066 in Spanish
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