aguja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,095
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
aguja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Barrita puntiaguda de metal, hueso o madera con un ojo por donde se pasa el hilo, cuerda, etc., con que se cose, borda o teje. Pronounced [aˈɣ̞uxa]. Often confused with aja and aula.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aguja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [aˈɣ̞uxa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aguja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈɣ̞uxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,095 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for aguja, with forms such as "agguja", "agjua", and "aguaj". 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, "aja", "aula", "aura", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is aguja, spelled A-G-U-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Barrita puntiaguda de metal, hueso o madera con un ojo por donde se pasa el hilo, cuerda, etc., con que se cose, borda o teje.
- 2Barrita de metal, hueso, marfil, etc., con la que se hacen labores de media, ganchillo o en general otras labores de punto.
- 3Tubo metálico de pequeño diámetro, con el extremo libre cortado a bisel que se acopla a la jeringa para inyectar sustancias en el organismo o en cualquier otro lugar.
- 4Manecilla del reloj u otro instrumento similar.
- 5Dispositivo en forma de estilete que al recorrer los surcos de los discos de los gramófonos, reproduce las vibraciones inscritas en ellos.
- 6Cada uno de los dos raíles movibles que sirven para que los trenes y tranvías cambien de vía.
- 7Hoja de los pinos y de otras coníferas.
- 8Distintas especies de peces caracterizados por tener alguna parte de su cuerpo o todo él en forma de aguja.
- 9Picorcillo que tienen ciertos vinos o por lo general las bebidas carbónicas producido por los gases que entran en su composición.
- 10Pastel largo y estrecho hecho con hojaldre relleno de carne picada.
- 11Costillas que corresponden al cuarto delantero de la res.
- 12Capitel estrecho y alto de la torre de una iglesia.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: agguja,agjua,aguaj,agujja,augja,gauja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "aguja"
Frequency rank: #10,095 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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