dajao

/[d̪aˈxao]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

dajao is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Agonostomus monticola) Pez perciforme, migratorio, que habita los ríos de Centroamérica, Cuba y algunas de las regiones de Tierra Caliente en México, principalmente en Veracruz. Habita en fondos b... Pronounced [d̪aˈxao].

Key facts for dajao
PropertyValue
Headworddajao
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[d̪aˈxao]
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

dajao is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for dajao is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪aˈxao]. 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: "(Agonostomus monticola) Pez perciforme, migratorio, que habita los ríos de Centroamérica, Cuba y algunas de las regiones de Tierra Caliente en México, principalmente en Veracruz. Habita en fondos b...".

No misspelling variants are generated for dajao 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 dajao, spelled D-A-J-A-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    (Agonostomus monticola) Pez perciforme, migratorio, que habita los ríos de Centroamérica, Cuba y algunas de las regiones de Tierra Caliente en México, principalmente en Veracruz. Habita en fondos bajos, se alimenta de crustáceos y una vez que desova en los ríos regresa al mar. Se le llama también salmón de la montaña. Alcanza los 30 cm de adulto, con el cuerpo ahusado, el lomo de color gris oscuro con ciertas tonalidades amarillas y el vientre más claro. Es comestible.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "dajao"?
"dajao" is spelled D-A-J-A-O. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪aˈxao].
What does "dajao" mean?
As a noun, "dajao" means: (Agonostomus monticola) Pez perciforme, migratorio, que habita los ríos de Centroamérica, Cuba y algunas de las regiones de Tierra Caliente en México, principalmente en Veracruz. Habita en fondos b...
How do you pronounce "dajao"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "dajao" is [d̪aˈxao]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "dajao" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.