sampa
/ˈsam.pa/
The verdict
“sampa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #93,505 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,505
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Otra vez.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sampa · sampa · Spanish
sampa · rank #93,505 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,505
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH Salustio
Nearest frequency peer: Salustio (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sampa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- république
république
6,501 corpus weight
- salivales
salivales
6,499 corpus weight
- Salustio
Salustio
6,497 corpus weight
- sampa
sampa
6,496 corpus weight
- saturando
saturando
6,492 corpus weight
- scienza
scienza
6,490 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sampa” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sampa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈsam.pa/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,505 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sampa” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sampa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #93,505 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈsam.pa/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Otra vez.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sampa, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is sampa, spelled S-A-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1Otra vez.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.