ola
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,811
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ola is aSpanishnoun. It means: Ondas que se desplazan por la superficie de cursos de agua, puestas en marcha por el viento, y son el principal agente de modelado de las costas. Pronounced [ˈola]. It ranks #4,811 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with os and on.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ola |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈola] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ola is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈola]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,811 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ola in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "on", "or", 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 ola, spelled O-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ondas que se desplazan por la superficie de cursos de agua, puestas en marcha por el viento, y son el principal agente de modelado de las costas.
- 2Cambio brusco de temperatura u otro fenómeno.
- 3Aparición inesperada de gran cantidad de eventos similares.
- 4Gran concentración de gente intentando moverse nerviosamente.
- 5Acción lúdica efectuada por un grupo muy numeroso de personas en que se levantan los dos brazos en una secuencia coordinada para producir un efecto visual semejante al de una ola₁.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #4,811 in Spanish
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