spa
[esˈpa]
The verdict
“spa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,233) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,233
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Grafía alternativa de espá.
Corpus desk
Index ES-spa · spa · Spanish
spa · rank #15,233 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,233
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH southern
Nearest frequency peer: southern (-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 “spa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Silvio
Silvio
84,771 corpus weight
- southern
southern
84,769 corpus weight
- spa
spa
84,768 corpus weight
- Stefan
Stefan
84,767 corpus weight
- sudamericano
sudamericano
84,766 corpus weight
- suicidarse
suicidarse
84,765 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “spa” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | spa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [esˈpa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,233 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “spa” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for spa is neighbouring look-alikes ("su", "st", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [esˈpa]. Frequency #15,233 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Grafía alternativa de espá.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for spa, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "su", "st", "sy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is spa, spelled S-P-A.
Definition
- 1Grafía alternativa de espá.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "spa" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "su". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #15,233 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.