omega
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#14,900
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
omega is aSpanishnoun. It means: Letra del alfabeto griego (ω, Ω), su vigesimocuarta (24.ª) y última. Sigue a la letra psi. Empleada como numeral equivale a 800. En griego clásico, se pronunciaba como o abierta larga ([O:]). En gr... Pronounced [oˈmeɣ̞a]. Often confused with ósea and oreja.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | omega |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈmeɣ̞a] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for omega is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈmeɣ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #14,900 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 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 omega, with forms such as "moega", "oemga", and "omeag". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ósea", "oreja", "ópera", 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 omega, spelled O-M-E-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Letra del alfabeto griego (ω, Ω), su vigesimocuarta (24.ª) y última. Sigue a la letra psi. Empleada como numeral equivale a 800. En griego clásico, se pronunciaba como o abierta larga ([O:]). En griego moderno, en cambio, su sonido se confunde con el de ómicron en o breve (X-SAMPA [o])
- 2Fin, final.
- 3Clase de perfil laminado cuya forma semeja a la de letra griega homónima en su forma mayúscula.
- 4Símbolo del ohmio (unidad de resistencia eléctrica en el Sistema Internacional).
- 5Símbolo de la constante de Chaitin.
- 6Símbolo de la velocidad angular.
- 7Símbolo del primer ordinal transfinito.
- 8Ácido graso poli-insaturado, uno de los considerados esenciales en la dieta humana. Presente en alimentos como el pescado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: moega,oemga,omeag,omegga,omgea,ommega
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "omega"
Frequency rank: #14,900 in Spanish
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