qua
/ˈkwa/
The verdict
“qua” sits in 14 confusable pairs (corpus #43,210) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,210
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 364
- “Q” headwords
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acá.
Corpus desk
Index ES-qua · qua · Spanish
qua · rank #43,210 · 0 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,210
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 364
- PHOTO-FINISH Quero
Nearest frequency peer: Quero (+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 “qua”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- provinciano
provinciano
56,795 corpus weight
- puntitos
puntitos
56,793 corpus weight
- qua
qua
56,791 corpus weight
- Quero
Quero
56,790 corpus weight
- querrías
querrías
56,789 corpus weight
- quiniela
quiniela
56,788 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “qua” 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 | qua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈkwa/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “qua”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for qua is neighbouring look-alikes ("que", "quo", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ˈkwa/. Frequency #43,210 among 364 “Q” headwords. Gloss: "Acá.".
Zero misspellings are on record for qua in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "que", "quo", "qui", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is qua, spelled Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Acá.
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).