OEA
[oˈea]
The verdict
“OEA” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,388) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,388
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Es la organización internacional que se define como una asociación de gobiernos del continente americano que facilita la cooperación en asuntos como el Derecho internacional, la paz y seguridad reg...
Corpus desk
Index ES-oea · OEA · Spanish
OEA · rank #10,388 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,388
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH notablemente
Nearest frequency peer: notablemente (-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 “OEA”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ninja
ninja
89,616 corpus weight
- nombra
nombra
89,615 corpus weight
- notablemente
notablemente
89,614 corpus weight
- OEA
OEA
89,613 corpus weight
- oiga
oiga
89,612 corpus weight
- olviden
olviden
89,611 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “OEA” 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 | OEA |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [oˈea] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “OEA”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OEA is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "of", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [oˈea]. Frequency #10,388 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Es la organización internacional que se define como una asociación de gobiernos del continente americano que facilita la cooperación en asuntos como el Derecho internacional, la paz y seguridad reg...".
OEA has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is OEA, spelled O-E-A.
Definition
- 1Es la organización internacional que se define como una asociación de gobiernos del continente americano que facilita la cooperación en asuntos como el Derecho internacional, la paz y seguridad regional, el desarrollo económico y social, los asuntos humanitarios y los derechos humanos.
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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