ora
[ˈoɾa]
The verdict
“ora” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,658) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,658
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expresa posibilidades que se contraponen, como alternancia en el tiempo o disyuntiva lógica.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ora · ora · Spanish
ora · rank #16,658 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,658
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH opus
Nearest frequency peer: opus (-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 “ora”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ocasional
ocasional
83,346 corpus weight
- ocupaciones
ocupaciones
83,345 corpus weight
- opus
opus
83,344 corpus weight
- ora
ora
83,343 corpus weight
- orador
orador
83,342 corpus weight
- ostenta
ostenta
83,341 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ora” 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 | ora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [ˈoɾa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ora”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ora is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "oz", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced [ˈoɾa]. Frequency #16,658 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Expresa posibilidades que se contraponen, como alternancia en el tiempo o disyuntiva lógica.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ora, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "oz", "ou", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is ora, spelled O-R-A.
Definition
- 1Expresa posibilidades que se contraponen, como alternancia en el tiempo o disyuntiva lógica.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ora appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entiendo por hombre libre aquel que ciertamente conoce y se atiene a los móviles y fines de su conducta, ora abandonándose a la fluencia del instinto, ora guiándose por los cauces geométricos de la razón».
La conjunción "ya" expresa alternabilidad así como la conjunción ora: ya saltando, ya corriendo; ora cante, ora ría».
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).