Baja
/ˈbɑ.jɑ/
"baja" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Baja” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #25,290 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #25,290
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
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 | Baja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɑ.jɑ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Baja” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Baja is 4 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈbɑ.jɑ/. Corpus data places it at rank #25,290 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Baja, with forms such as "abja", "baaj", and "bajja". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "BJ", "bar", "bay", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Baja, spelled B-A-J-A.
Definition
- 1A city in Bács-Kiskun County, Hungary.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abja,baaj,bajja,bbaja,bjaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Baja - 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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Using “Baja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-A-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈbɑ.jɑ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “BJ” - see the side-by-side comparison. Baja vs BJ
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.