Roa
[ˈroa]
The verdict
“Roa” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #23,934 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #23,934
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Apellido
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 | Roa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈroa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Roa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Roa is 3 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈroa]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,934 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Apellido".
Roa doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rr", "ru", "Rx", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is Roa, spelled R-O-A.
Definition
- 1Apellido
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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Using “Roa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is R-O-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈroa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “rr” - see the side-by-side comparison. Roa vs rr
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.