ganja
/ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/
"ganja" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ganja” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,709
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ganja · ganja · English
ganja · rank #40,709 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,709
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH genial
Nearest frequency peer: genial (+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 “ganja”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Gaffney
Gaffney
59,295 corpus weight
- ganja
ganja
59,292 corpus weight
- genial
genial
59,291 corpus weight
- geophysics
geophysics
59,290 corpus weight
- GERD
GERD
59,289 corpus weight
- Gibb
Gibb
59,288 corpus weight
What this shows “ganja” 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 | ganja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #40,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “ganja”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ganja (IPA /ˈɡɑn.d͡ʒɑ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,709 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ganja, with forms such as "agnja", "gajna", and "ganaj". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Gaza", "gina", "Gaya", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800. The correct English form is ganja, spelled G-A-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ganja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whilst a ganja-eater was catching fish on the bank of a river, a man from another country came and asked which was the road and what was his name; he replied that his name was "eater of six maunds of ganja."
There were altogether 2,202 admissions to the five asylums of this province during that time, and of that number it was ascertained that 641 were ganja smokers, 117 were spirit drinkers, and 8 were opium-eaters, the percentages being ganja 291 spririts 5'8, opium 036 per cent.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi गांजा (gāñjā), ultimately from Sanskrit गञ्जा (gañjā, “hemp”). First use appears c. 1800.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agnja
- gajna
- ganaj
- ganjja
- gannja
- gganja
- gnaja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ganja - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).