orca
[ˈoɾka]
The verdict
“orca” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,482) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,482
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mamífero marino carnívoro (Orcinus orca) perteneciente al orden Cetáceos (Cetacea) de unos unos diez metros de longitud, complexión robusta y aletas largas, de color azul muy oscuro, prácticamente ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-orca · orca · Spanish
orca · rank #45,482 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,482
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH olvídense
Nearest frequency peer: olvídense (-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 “orca”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ocupándose
ocupándose
54,522 corpus weight
- oli
oli
54,521 corpus weight
- olvídense
olvídense
54,520 corpus weight
- orca
orca
54,519 corpus weight
- oscurecer
oscurecer
54,518 corpus weight
- oídas
oídas
54,517 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “orca” 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 | orca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈoɾka] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “orca”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for orca is neighbouring look-alikes ("oro", "osa", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈoɾka]. Frequency #45,482 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Mamífero marino carnívoro (Orcinus orca) perteneciente al orden Cetáceos (Cetacea) de unos unos diez metros de longitud, complexión robusta y aletas largas, de color azul muy oscuro, prácticamente ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for orca, including "orac" and "orrca". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oro", "osa", "Ori", 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 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 orca, spelled O-R-C-A.
Definition
- 1Mamífero marino carnívoro (Orcinus orca) perteneciente al orden Cetáceos (Cetacea) de unos unos diez metros de longitud, complexión robusta y aletas largas, de color azul muy oscuro, prácticamente negro, por la parte superior y blanco por la inferior. Puede encontrarse prácticamente en todos los océanos del mundo aunque con clara preferencia de las fértiles aguas frías como las polares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- orac
- orrca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of orca - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).