ska
[ˈska]
The verdict
“ska” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #40,554 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #40,554
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
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) |
Where “ska” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ska is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈska]. Corpus data places it at rank #40,554 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “ska”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-K-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈska] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “su” - see the side-by-side comparison. ska vs su
- 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.