caja china
The verdict
“caja china” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Instrumento musical de percusión de la familia de los idiófonos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caja china |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈkaxa ˈt͡ʃina] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “caja china” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for caja china is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkaxa ˈt͡ʃina]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Instrumento musical de percusión de la familia de los idiófonos.".
No misspelling variants are generated for caja china in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 china, spelled C-A-J-A- -C-H-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Instrumento musical de percusión de la familia de los idiófonos.
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Using “caja china”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is C-A-J-A- -C-H-I-N-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈkaxa ˈt͡ʃina] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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