rajahvsRojasWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: rajah is a noun, Rojas is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“rajah” is a noun and “Rojas” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,432
“rajah” frequency rank
#37,206
“Rojas” frequency rank
81638
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rajah Rojas
Definition A Hindu prince or ruler in India. A surname from Spanish.

Letter map: rajah vs Rojas

Shared letters muted; letters that set rajah and Rojas apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. rajah and Rojas follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
rajah
5 ch
Rojas

Role in the sentence - rajah and Rojas

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: rajah is anoun and Rojasaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 81638, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rajah is recorded at frequency rank #44,432, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/. Rojas is at rank #37,206, tagged as aname.

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 81638, this pair ranks #17,277 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rajah vs Rojas

Shared letters: ajr. Private to "rajah": h. Private to "Rojas": os.

"rajah" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "Rojas" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rajaharjah · raajh · rajahh · rajha · rajjah · rjaah · rrajah
  • Rojasorjas · rjoas · roajs · rojass · rojjas · rojsa · rrojas

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rajah" and "Rojas" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rajah" is a noun and "Rojas" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "rajah" or "Rojas" show up more?
"Rojas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,206 in our English list, against #44,432 for "rajah". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "rajah" vs "Rojas" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rajah" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Rojas" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #17,277 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rajah" and "Rojas" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rabat vs rajah". 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 #17,277 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list