ajar

/[aˈxaɾ]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

ajar is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tierra sembrada de ajos. Pronounced [aˈxaɾ].

Key facts for ajar
PropertyValue
Headwordajar
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[aˈxaɾ]
Letters4
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

ajar is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ajar is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [aˈxaɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tierra sembrada de ajos.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for ajar in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 ajar, spelled A-J-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tierra sembrada de ajos.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ajar"?
"ajar" is spelled A-J-A-R. The IPA pronunciation is [aˈxaɾ].
What does "ajar" mean?
As a noun, "ajar" means: Tierra sembrada de ajos.
How do you pronounce "ajar"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ajar" is [aˈxaɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ajar" come from?
"ajar" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.