popa
[ˈpopa]
The verdict
“popa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,517. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,517
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Extremo trasero de una embarcación.
Corpus desk
Index ES-popa · popa · Spanish
popa · rank #17,517 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,517
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH postes
Nearest frequency peer: postes (+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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “popa”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- peón
peón
82,488 corpus weight
- pleito
pleito
82,487 corpus weight
- popa
popa
82,484 corpus weight
- postes
postes
82,483 corpus weight
- postres
postres
82,482 corpus weight
- practicado
practicado
82,481 corpus weight
What this shows “popa” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | popa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpopa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “popa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around popa (IPA [ˈpopa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,517 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for popa, with forms such as "oppa", "poap", and "poppa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PP", "por", "pot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct Spanish form is popa, spelled P-O-P-A.
Definition
- 1Extremo trasero de una embarcación.
- 2Por extensión, la mitad posterior de la misma.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oppa
- poap
- poppa
- ppoa
- ppopa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of popa - 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 "popa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).