Ochoa

name

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The verdict

“Ochoa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,954
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ochoa · Ochoa · French

Ochoa · rank #37,954 · 6 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,954
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH occuperont

Nearest frequency peer: occuperont (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ochoa »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Ochoa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Ochoa vs Othon
60% similar
Ochoa vs och
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Ochoa
PropertyValue
HeadwordOchoa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#37,954
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ochoa »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Ochoase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « occuperont » (#37,953), « offriront » (#37,955), « néons » (#37,952). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « Ochoa » est au #37,954. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around Ochoa, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,954 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ochoa, with forms such as "cohoa", "occhoa", and "ochao". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Othon", "och", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Ochoa, spelled O-C-H-O-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Ochoa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Parmi les têtes d'affiche particulièrement attendues : Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine, Gaël Faye, The Limiñanas, Selah Sue, Bernard Lavilliers, Rodrigo y Gabriela ou, encore, Gaëtan Roussel, Eliades Ochoa, Simple Minds et Curtis Harding.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • cohoa
  • occhoa
  • ochao
  • ochhoa
  • ocoha
  • ohcoa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ochoa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

cohoa2occhoa1ochao2ochhoa1ocoha2ohcoa2
Edit distance from "Ochoa"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ochoa"?
"Ochoa" is spelled O-C-H-O-A.
What does "Ochoa" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ochoa" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Ochoa"?
"Ochoa" is commonly confused with "Othon", "och". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Ochoa" come from?
"Ochoa" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Ochoa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

néons#37,952niels#37,948Nicée#37,947Niang#37,946

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

louez6 variantsindy6 variantsgloss6 variantstrios6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list