Abuja
/əˈbuːd͡ʒə/
"abuja" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Abuja” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,737
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-abuja · Abuja · English
Abuja · rank #23,737 · 6 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,737
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH abba
Nearest frequency peer: abba (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Abuja”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- zee
zee
76,268 corpus weight
- zoned
zoned
76,267 corpus weight
- abba
abba
76,265 corpus weight
- Abuja
Abuja
76,264 corpus weight
- acetate
acetate
76,263 corpus weight
- affirming
affirming
76,262 corpus weight
What this shows “Abuja” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Abuja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Abuja”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Abuja (IPA /əˈbuːd͡ʒə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,737 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Abuja, with forms such as "abbuja", "abjua", and "abuaj". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "aura", "aqua", "abuse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Abuja, spelled A-B-U-J-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Abuja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.
Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abbuja
- abjua
- abuaj
- abujja
- aubja
- bauja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Abuja - 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.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Abuja", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).