oops
[ʊps, ups]
The verdict
“oops” sits in 13 confusable pairs (corpus #37,238) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,238
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Uy, ups (interjección que denota un error imprevisto).
Corpus desk
Index ES-oops · oops · Spanish
oops · rank #37,238 · 4 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,238
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH odien
Nearest frequency peer: odien (-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 “oops”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- obscuro
obscuro
62,766 corpus weight
- odiaban
odiaban
62,765 corpus weight
- odien
odien
62,764 corpus weight
- oops
oops
62,763 corpus weight
- opa
opa
62,762 corpus weight
- originados
originados
62,761 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “oops” 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 | oops |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ʊps, ups] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #37,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “oops”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oops is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "ops", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ʊps, ups]. Frequency #37,238 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Uy, ups (interjección que denota un error imprevisto).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for oops, with forms such as "oopps", "oopss", and "oosp". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "ops", "opa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is oops, spelled O-O-P-S.
Definition
- 1Uy, ups (interjección que denota un error imprevisto).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oopps
- oopss
- oosp
- opos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oops - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "oops", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).