topa
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#34,810
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
topa is aSpanishnoun. It means: Motón de driza con que se izaban o subían las velas de las galeras. Pronounced [ˈt̪opa]. Often confused with tos and tor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | topa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪opa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for topa is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪opa]. Corpus data places it at rank #34,810 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for topa, with forms such as "toap", "toppa", and "tpoa". 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, "tos", "tor", "toy", 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 topa, spelled T-O-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Motón de driza con que se izaban o subían las velas de las galeras.
- 2Balsa (árbol).
- 3Encuentro de dos cortadores de café que vienen en direcciones opuestas por el mismo surco.
- 4Bocacalle.
- 5Inflamación de las glándulas parótidas.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: toap,toppa,tpoa,ttopa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for topa
Misspelling Variants of "topa"
Frequency rank: #34,810 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter T in our Spanish index: