usa
[ˈusa]
The verdict
“usa” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #1,074 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #1,074
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de usar o de usarse.
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 | usa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈusa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “usa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for usa is 3 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈusa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,074 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.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for usa, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ut", "uso", "use", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is usa, spelled U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de usar o de usarse.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de usar.
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 “usa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is U-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈusa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “ut” - see the side-by-side comparison. usa vs ut
- 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.