bajo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#207
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bajo is aSpanishprep. It means: Denota una posición inferior. Pronounced [ˈbaxo]. It ranks #207 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with bo and bay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | [ˈbaxo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for bajo is 4 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbaxo]. Corpus data places it at rank #207 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bajo, with forms such as "abjo", "bajjo", and "baoj". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bo", "bay", "bro", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 bajo, spelled B-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Denota una posición inferior.
- 2Denota subordinación o dependencia.
- 3Indica la ubicación dentro de un periodo de tiempo.
- 4Indica la inclusión dentro de un conjunto.
- 5Indica disimulo u ocultamiento.
- 6Se usa para indicar una opinión.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abjo,bajjo,baoj,bbajo,bjao,vajo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bajo
Misspelling Variants of "bajo"
Frequency rank: #207 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
Other entries that begin with the letter B in our Spanish index: