aja
[ˈaxa]
The verdict
“aja” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,652) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,652
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expresión que indica una respuesta afirmativa o también que uno está de acuerdo con el/los interlocutores.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aja · aja · Spanish
aja · rank #23,652 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,652
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH agresivas
Nearest frequency peer: agresivas (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “aja”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- afectaría
afectaría
76,352 corpus weight
- agotador
agotador
76,351 corpus weight
- agresivas
agresivas
76,350 corpus weight
- aja
aja
76,349 corpus weight
- ajustados
ajustados
76,348 corpus weight
- albedrío
albedrío
76,347 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aja” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | aja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈaxa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aja”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aja is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ay", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈaxa]. Frequency #23,652 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "expresión que indica una respuesta afirmativa o también que uno está de acuerdo con el/los interlocutores.".
aja doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "al", "ay", "as", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is aja, spelled A-J-A.
Definition
- 1expresión que indica una respuesta afirmativa o también que uno está de acuerdo con el/los interlocutores.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
¿Saliste de casa hoy? aja.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).