ajo
[ˈaxo]
The verdict
“ajo” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #9,571 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #9,571
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Allium sativum) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las aliáceas, cultivada por su bulbo comestible, muy apreciado en gastronomía. Posee hojas planas y delgadas, de hasta 30 cm de longitud, y...
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 | ajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaxo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ajo” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ajo is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈaxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,571 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
ajo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is ajo, spelled A-J-O.
Definition
- 1(Allium sativum) Planta herbácea perenne de la familia de las aliáceas, cultivada por su bulbo comestible, muy apreciado en gastronomía. Posee hojas planas y delgadas, de hasta 30 cm de longitud, y flores pequeñas y blancas. El bulbo, de forma oblonga y recubierto de una fina piel blanca, está dividido en gajos comúnmente llamados dientes. Posee un intenso olor debido a la aliina.
- 2Bulbo de esta planta, o gajo del mismo, utilizado como condimento.
This word in other languages
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 “ajo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-J-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈaxo] (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. ajo 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.