ajo
[ˈaxo]
The verdict
“ajo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,571) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,571
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ajo · ajo · Spanish
ajo · rank #9,571 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,571
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH aldeas
Nearest frequency peer: aldeas (+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 “ajo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- adulta
adulta
90,433 corpus weight
- agresivo
agresivo
90,432 corpus weight
- ajo
ajo
90,430 corpus weight
- aldeas
aldeas
90,429 corpus weight
- amargo
amargo
90,428 corpus weight
- Amos
Amos
90,427 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ajo” 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 | 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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ajo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ajo is neighbouring look-alikes ("al", "ay", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaxo]. Frequency #9,571 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
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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