pasa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#270
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pasa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Uva seca, deshidratada parcialmente, sea de forma natural o por acción humana al cocerla al calor. Pronounced [ˈpasa]. It ranks #270 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with paz and pau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pasa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpasa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for pasa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpasa]. Corpus data places it at rank #270 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pasa, with forms such as "apsa", "paas", and "passa". 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, "paz", "pau", "pat", 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 pasa, spelled P-A-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Uva seca, deshidratada parcialmente, sea de forma natural o por acción humana al cocerla al calor.
- 2Tipo de cosmético o afeite para la piel que se hacía con uvas pasas.
- 3Por analogía por su forma y color, mechón de cabello crespo o ensortijado, en particular los de gente africana o afrodescendiente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apsa,paas,passa,ppasa,psaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pasa
Misspelling Variants of "pasa"
Frequency rank: #270 in Spanish
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