ópera
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,458
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ópera is aSpanishnoun. It means: Drama cantado con acompañamiento instrumental que, a diferencia del oratorio, se representa en un espacio teatral ante un público. El drama se presenta usando elementos típicos del teatro, tales co... Pronounced [ˈopeɾa]. It ranks #8,458 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ora and otra.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ópera |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈopeɾa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ópera is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈopeɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,458 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 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 ópera, with forms such as "póera", "óepra", and "ópear". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ora", "otra", "ósea", 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 ópera, spelled Ó-P-E-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Drama cantado con acompañamiento instrumental que, a diferencia del oratorio, se representa en un espacio teatral ante un público. El drama se presenta usando elementos típicos del teatro, tales como escenografía, vestuarios y actuación. Sin embargo, el libreto, se canta en vez de ser hablado.
- 2Poema dramático escrito para este fin; letra de la ópera₁.
- 3Música de la ópera.₁.
- 4Género al que pertenecen las óperas.
- 5Teatro en el que se suelen tener lugar los espectáculos de óperas.
- 6Cualquier obra enredosa o larga, ya sea de manos o de ingenio.
- 7Tipo de guante largo que cubre hasta el codo usado por las mujeres, que antaño era muy común en la ópera y hoy lo es como prenda de moda.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: póera,óepra,ópear,óperra,óppera,óprea
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ópera
Misspelling Variants of "ópera"
Frequency rank: #8,458 in Spanish
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