ja
[ˈxa]
The verdict
“ja” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #2,782) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #2,782
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Usado para indicar la risa, la burla o la incredulidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ja · ja · Spanish
ja · rank #2,782 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,782
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH hierro
Nearest frequency peer: hierro (-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 “ja”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- hablas
hablas
97,222 corpus weight
- hierro
hierro
97,220 corpus weight
- ja
ja
97,219 corpus weight
- juro
juro
97,218 corpus weight
- lago
lago
97,217 corpus weight
- logrado
logrado
97,216 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ja” 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 | ja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈxa] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #2,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ja”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ja is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "je", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈxa]. Frequency #2,782 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Usado para indicar la risa, la burla o la incredulidad.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ja in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "je", "ji", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is ja, spelled J-A.
Definition
- 1Usado para indicar la risa, la burla o la incredulidad.
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.