OPEP
[oˈpep]
The verdict
“OPEP” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #29,766 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #29,766
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4
- letters
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organización económica internacional, con sede en Viena (Austria). Creada como respuesta a la bajada del precio oficial del petróleo acordada unilateralmente por las grandes compañías distribuidora...
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 | OPEP |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈpep] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “OPEP” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for OPEP is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈpep]. Corpus data places it at rank #29,766 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organización económica internacional, con sede en Viena (Austria). Creada como respuesta a la bajada del precio oficial del petróleo acordada unilateralmente por las grandes compañías distribuidora...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for OPEP, with forms such as "oepp", "opepp", and "oppep". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oye", "ops", "ore", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 OPEP, spelled O-P-E-P.
Definition
- 1Organización económica internacional, con sede en Viena (Austria). Creada como respuesta a la bajada del precio oficial del petróleo acordada unilateralmente por las grandes compañías distribuidoras en agosto de 1960.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oepp,opepp,oppep
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of OPEP - 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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Using “OPEP”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-P-E-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oˈpep] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “oye” - see the side-by-side comparison. OPEP vs oye
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.