roca

[ˈroka]

/[ˈroka]/ noun

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The verdict

“roca” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #3,444) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#3,444
frequency rank, Spanish
4,151
“R” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acumulación sólida y natural de minerales que constituye una gran parte de la corteza terrestre.

Corpus desk

Index ES-roca · roca · Spanish

roca · rank #3,444 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,444
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,151
  • PHOTO-FINISH riesgos

Nearest frequency peer: riesgos (-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 “roca”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “roca” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

roca vs rol
50% similar
roca vs ron
50% similar
roca vs Roy
25% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for roca
PropertyValue
Headwordroca
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈroka]
Letters4
Frequency rank#3,444
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “roca”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.rocacae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “riesgos” (#3,443), “Salto” (#3,445), “revisar” (#3,442). Entre 4,151 lemas con “R”, “roca” va en #3,444. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for roca is neighbouring look-alikes ("rol", "ron", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈroka]. Frequency #3,444 among 4,151 “R” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for roca, with forms such as "rcoa", "roac", and "rroca". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "rol", "ron", "Roy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is roca, spelled R-O-C-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Acumulación sólida y natural de minerales que constituye una gran parte de la corteza terrestre.
  2. 2
    Gran cantidad de piedras que forman un bloque sólido que se levanta del agua o de la tierra.
  3. 3
    Piedra grande.
  4. 4
    Pene haciendo bulto bajo el pantalón del sujeto excitado sexualmente.

Synonyms

peñascopeña

This word in other languages

rock(English)roche(Français)Fels(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rcoa
  • roac
  • rroca

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of roca - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rcoa2roac2rroca1
Edit distance from "roca"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "roca"?
"roca" is spelled R-O-C-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈroka].
What does "roca" mean?
As a noun, "roca" means: Acumulación sólida y natural de minerales que constituye una gran parte de la corteza terrestre.
What words are commonly confused with "roca"?
"roca" is commonly confused with "rol", "ron", "Roy". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "roca"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "roca" is [ˈroka]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "roca" come from?
"roca" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "roca", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

palo#3,432paja#3,431asco#3,458dame#3,475

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list