osa
[ˈosa]
The verdict
“osa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,441) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,441
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de oso.
Corpus desk
Index ES-osa · osa · Spanish
osa · rank #22,441 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,441
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH Olivera
Nearest frequency peer: Olivera (-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 “osa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ojete
ojete
77,562 corpus weight
- Olivera
Olivera
77,561 corpus weight
- osa
osa
77,560 corpus weight
- otomano
otomano
77,559 corpus weight
- paradise
paradise
77,558 corpus weight
- participaba
participaba
77,557 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “osa” 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 | osa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈosa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “osa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for osa is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈosa]. Frequency #22,441 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de oso.".
Zero misspellings are on record for osa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "ou", "ot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is osa, spelled O-S-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de oso.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).