forja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,419
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
forja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Caldera u horno en que se calientan los metales para forjarlos. Pronounced [ˈfoɾxa]. Often confused with fra and foro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | forja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈfoɾxa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for forja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈfoɾxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #23,419 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for forja, with forms such as "fforja", "fojra", and "foraj". 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, "fra", "foro", "fría", 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 forja, spelled F-O-R-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Caldera u horno en que se calientan los metales para forjarlos.
- 2Taller del forjador donde se instala este instrumento.
- 3Taller donde se funde el mineral de hierro.
- 4Acción y efecto de forjar un metal.
- 5Metal trabajado por forja₄, por oposición al de fundición.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: fforja,fojra,foraj,forjja,forrja,froja,ofrja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for forja
Misspelling Variants of "forja"
Frequency rank: #23,419 in Spanish
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