aja
[ˈaxa]
The verdict
“aja” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #23,652 in Spanish word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #23,652
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expresión que indica una respuesta afirmativa o también que uno está de acuerdo con el/los interlocutores.
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) |
Where “aja” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for aja is 3 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,652 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “aja”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-J-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaxa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “al” - see the side-by-side comparison. aja vs al
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.