caja
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,306
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
caja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Recipiente rectangular cerrable, generalmente con tapa, en el cual se pueden guardar otros objetos. Pronounced [ˈkaxa]. It ranks #1,306 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with can and cap.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkaxa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caja is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,306 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for caja, with forms such as "acja", "caaj", and "cajja". 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, "can", "cap", "cal", 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 caja, spelled C-A-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Recipiente rectangular cerrable, generalmente con tapa, en el cual se pueden guardar otros objetos.
- 2Instrumento musical de percusión empleado en diferentes regiones y ritmos en diversos formatos. Generalmente se refiere al formado por una membrana tensada sobre un bastidor, del cual se produce sonido golpéandolo con baquetas.
- 3Recipiente rectangular metálico con cerradura para guardar dinero y objetos de valor.
- 4Máquina que puede sumar precios, imprimir recibos y guardar los pagos.
- 5Lugar donde se paga en almacenes, supermercados, bancos, etc.
- 6Banco especializado en manejar cuentas de ahorro.
- 7Cualquier hueco formado con figura rectangular que permite separar, clasificar o resonar, para diferentes usos o como parte de ciertas estructuras, tales como instrumentos musicales, el correo, la construcción, la imprenta, etc.
- 8Instrumento musical originario de Perú, que consiste en una caja de madera sobre la que se sienta el músico que la toca.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acja,caaj,cajja,ccaja,cjaa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for caja
Misspelling Variants of "caja"
Frequency rank: #1,306 in Spanish
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