eje
[ˈexe]
The verdict
“eje” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,077) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,077
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pieza cilíndrica que atraviesa un cuerpo giratorio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-eje · eje · Spanish
eje · rank #4,077 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,077
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH documentación
Nearest frequency peer: documentación (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “eje”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- despierta
despierta
95,927 corpus weight
- docente
docente
95,926 corpus weight
- documentaci…
documentación
95,925 corpus weight
- eje
eje
95,924 corpus weight
- estrategias
estrategias
95,923 corpus weight
- finanzas
finanzas
95,922 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “eje” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eje |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈexe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “eje”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for eje is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "él", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈexe]. Frequency #4,077 among 5,243 “E” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for eje in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "él", "ex", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is eje, spelled E-J-E.
Definition
- 1Pieza cilíndrica que atraviesa un cuerpo giratorio.
- 2Barra horizontal, perpendicular en línea de tracción, que une dos ruedas opuestas de un carruaje.
- 3Cada una de las líneas perpendiculares entre sí que construye un sistema coordenado.
- 4Línea imaginaria a cuyo alrededor se supone que gira un cuerpo.
- 5En sentido figurado, idea básica y fundamental.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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