aljofaina
[alxoˈfajna]
The verdict
“aljofaina” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vasija o recipiente de gran diámetro y escasa profundidad, que se emplea, generalmente, para lavarse la cara o las manos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aljofaina · aljofaina · Spanish
aljofaina · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aljofaina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [alxoˈfajna] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “aljofaina” en español
Rare enough to double-check
aljofaina is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [alxoˈfajna]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vasija o recipiente de gran diámetro y escasa profundidad, que se emplea, generalmente, para lavarse la cara o las manos.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aljofaina, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is aljofaina, spelled A-L-J-O-F-A-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Vasija o recipiente de gran diámetro y escasa profundidad, que se emplea, generalmente, para lavarse la cara o las manos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.