toa
[ˈt̪oa]
The verdict
“toa” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,489) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,489
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,005
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de toar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-toa · toa · Spanish
toa · rank #39,489 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,489
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,005
- PHOTO-FINISH tienta
Nearest frequency peer: tienta (-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 “toa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- tendía
tendía
60,517 corpus weight
- termitas
termitas
60,516 corpus weight
- tienta
tienta
60,513 corpus weight
- toa
toa
60,512 corpus weight
- tosco
tosco
60,510 corpus weight
- train
train
60,508 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “toa” 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 | toa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈt̪oa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,489 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “toa” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for toa is neighbouring look-alikes ("tú", "TV", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈt̪oa]. Frequency #39,489 among 3,005 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for toa, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tú", "TV", "ty", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is toa, spelled T-O-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de toar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de toar.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "toa" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "tú". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #39,489 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.