sopa

/[ˈsopa]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,673

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

sopa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Preparación liquida y cocida junto con otros ingredientes como carne o verduras. Pronounced [ˈsopa]. It ranks #5,673 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with soy and sos.

Key facts for sopa
PropertyValue
Headwordsopa
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈsopa]
Letters4
Frequency rank#5,673
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of sopa in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for sopa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsopa]. Corpus data places it at rank #5,673 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for sopa, with forms such as "ospa", "soap", and "soppa". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "soy", "sos", "sta", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is sopa, spelled S-O-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Preparación liquida y cocida junto con otros ingredientes como carne o verduras.
  2. 2
    Dícese del sancocho, preparación similar pero más cargada.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ospa,soap,soppa,spoa,ssopa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for sopa

Misspelling Variants of "sopa"

ospa4soap4soppa5spoa4ssopa5
Misspelling Variants of "sopa"

Frequency rank: #5,673 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sopa"?
"sopa" is spelled S-O-P-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈsopa].
What does "sopa" mean?
As a noun, "sopa" means: Preparación liquida y cocida junto con otros ingredientes como carne o verduras.
What words are commonly confused with "sopa"?
"sopa" is commonly confused with "soy", "sos", "sta". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "sopa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sopa" is [ˈsopa]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "sopa" come from?
"sopa" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter S in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.