Rioja
/ɹiˈɒxə/
"rioja" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Rioja” is uncommon English (frequency #58,320 among 3,094 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,320
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - La Rioja: An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-rioja · Rioja · English
Rioja · rank #58,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,320
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Roby
Nearest frequency peer: Roby (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “Rioja”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- reenact
reenact
41,691 corpus weight
- returnable
returnable
41,686 corpus weight
- reverberati…
reverberation
41,685 corpus weight
- ribosome
ribosome
41,684 corpus weight
- Rioja
Rioja
41,681 corpus weight
- Roby
Roby
41,680 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Rioja” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rioja |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ɹiˈɒxə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Rioja” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Rioja is uncommon English at frequency #58,320 among 3,094 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ɹiˈɒxə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "La Rioja: An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Rioja in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is Rioja, spelled R-I-O-J-A.
Definition
- 1La Rioja: An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.
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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