campvscasaTell them apart

Which to use

“camp” and “casa” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#10,626
“camp” frequency rank
#136
“casa” frequency rank
10762
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature camp casa
Definition Campamento. Edificación destinada a vivienda.

Where the eye mixes camp and casa

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence.

4 ch
camp
4 ch
casa

Visual trap between camp and casa

A purely visual mix-up. camp ([kɑ̃]) and casa ([ˈkasa]) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10762, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

camp is recorded at frequency rank #10,626, classified as anoun, pronounced [kɑ̃]. casa is at rank #136, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈkasa].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 10762, this pair ranks #297,465 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of camp vs casa

Shared letters: ac. Private to "camp": mp. Private to "casa": s.

"camp" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "casa" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • campacmp · cammp · campp · capm · ccamp · cmap
  • casaacsa · caas · cassa · ccasa · csaa

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "camp" for "casa" ever safe?
No. They are said differently ([kɑ̃] versus [ˈkasa]) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "camp" or "casa" show up more?
"casa" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #136 in our Spanish list, against #10,626 for "camp". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "camp" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "casa" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #297,465 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "camp" and "casa" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "camp vs chop". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #297,465 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list