ska
[ˈska]
The verdict
“ska” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,554) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,554
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Género musical originario de Jamaica que surgió a finales de la década de 1950 y fue popularizado durante la primera mitad de los años 1960, que deriva principalmente de la fusión de ritmos caribeñ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ska · ska · Spanish
ska · rank #40,554 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,554
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH soleil
Nearest frequency peer: soleil (+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 “ska”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- simulado
simulado
59,450 corpus weight
- sintonizar
sintonizar
59,449 corpus weight
- ska
ska
59,447 corpus weight
- soleil
soleil
59,446 corpus weight
- somalí
somalí
59,445 corpus weight
- someterá
someterá
59,444 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ska” 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 | ska |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈska] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ska”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ska is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "so", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈska]. Frequency #40,554 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Género musical originario de Jamaica que surgió a finales de la década de 1950 y fue popularizado durante la primera mitad de los años 1960, que deriva principalmente de la fusión de ritmos caribeñ...".
Zero misspellings are on record for ska in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "so", "st", 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ska, spelled S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Género musical originario de Jamaica que surgió a finales de la década de 1950 y fue popularizado durante la primera mitad de los años 1960, que deriva principalmente de la fusión de ritmos caribeños como el mento y el calipso y ritmos propios de los Estados Unidos, como el R&B, el jazz y el soul de la época, siendo el precursor del rocksteady y más tarde del reggae.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).