za
[ˈsa]
The verdict
“za” sits in 16 confusable pairs (corpus #23,278) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,278
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
- 16
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Voz que se usa para espantar a algunos animales como el perro, el gato, etc.
Corpus desk
Index ES-za · za · Spanish
za · rank #23,278 · 0 variants · 16 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,278
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH ámbar
Nearest frequency peer: ámbar (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “za”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- voltear
voltear
76,728 corpus weight
- votes
votes
76,727 corpus weight
- vómitos
vómitos
76,726 corpus weight
- words
words
76,725 corpus weight
- za
za
76,723 corpus weight
- ámbar
ámbar
76,722 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “za” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | za |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈsa] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #23,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “za”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for za is neighbouring look-alikes ("ze", "zi", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈsa]. Frequency #23,278 among 220 “Z” headwords. Gloss: "Voz que se usa para espantar a algunos animales como el perro, el gato, etc.".
za doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "ze", "zi", "zoo", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 za, spelled Z-A.
Definition
- 1Voz que se usa para espantar a algunos animales como el perro, el gato, etc.
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.