oía
[oˈia]
The verdict
“oía” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,424) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,424
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
Corpus desk
Index ES-oia · oía · Spanish
oía · rank #21,424 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,424
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH ordenadas
Nearest frequency peer: ordenadas (-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 “oía”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ocurran
ocurran
78,580 corpus weight
- ordenadas
ordenadas
78,578 corpus weight
- oía
oía
78,577 corpus weight
- Pajarito
Pajarito
78,576 corpus weight
- papeleo
papeleo
78,575 corpus weight
- pararon
pararon
78,574 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oía” 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 | oía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈia] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oía”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oía is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ok", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [oˈia]. Frequency #21,424 among 1,467 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for oía in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ok", "on", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is oía, spelled O-Í-A.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oía", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).