bajada
noun
bajada is a noun meaning “In the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-J-A-D-A, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bajada is bajadas.
What does bajada mean?
noun
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USIn the southwestern US, a slope, specifically part of a piedmont slope made of rocky detritus.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of bajada
- bajadas plural
- bahada
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bajada?
Bajada appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does bajada come from?
Borrowed from Spanish bajada.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).