oía

[oˈia]

/[oˈia]/ verb

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

oía vs os
33% similar
oía vs ok
33% similar
oía vs on
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for oía
PropertyValue
Headwordoía
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechVerb
IPA[oˈia]
Letters3
Frequency rank#21,424
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oía”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).oíacae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “ordenadas” (#21,423), “Pajarito” (#21,425), “papeleo” (#21,426). Entre 1,467 lemas con “O”, “oía” va en #21,424. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
  2. 2
    Tercera 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "oía"?
"oía" is spelled O-Í-A. The IPA pronunciation is [oˈia].
What does "oía" mean?
As a verb, "oía" means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oír.
What words are commonly confused with "oía"?
"oía" is commonly confused with "os", "ok", "on". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "oía"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "oía" is [oˈia]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "oía" come from?
"oía" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list