persa
[ˈpeɾsa]
The verdict
“persa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,469) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,469
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia.
Corpus desk
Index ES-persa · persa · Spanish
persa · rank #11,469 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,469
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH perderse
Nearest frequency peer: perderse (-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 “persa”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- parecería
parecería
88,535 corpus weight
- percibir
percibir
88,534 corpus weight
- perderse
perderse
88,533 corpus weight
- persa
persa
88,532 corpus weight
- pinos
pinos
88,531 corpus weight
- polar
polar
88,529 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “persa” 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 | persa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpeɾsa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “persa”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for persa is neighbouring look-alikes ("pes", "peso", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈpeɾsa]. Frequency #11,469 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for persa, with forms such as "eprsa", "perrsa", and "perssa". 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, "pes", "peso", "pura", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is persa, spelled P-E-R-S-A.
Definition
- 1Lengua indoeuropea de la rama indoirania, hablada en Irán y las áreas colindantes de Asia.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eprsa
- perrsa
- perssa
- ppersa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of persa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "persa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).