jaba
Letters
4 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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similar word pairs
jaba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Bolsa hecha de junco o yagua trenzados, con un par de asas, para llevarla en la mano. Pronounced [ˈxaβ̞a].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxaβ̞a] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jaba is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxaβ̞a]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for jaba in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 jaba, spelled J-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bolsa hecha de junco o yagua trenzados, con un par de asas, para llevarla en la mano.
- 2Bolsa de papel grueso, tela ó plástico, con dos asas para llevar las compras.
- 3Saco, bolsa o mochila de los pordioseros.
- 4Mancha oscura en la zona lumbar en personas con ascendientes no blancos.
- 5Cajón de madera o cesta trenzada para almacenar y llevar muebles, botellas, frascos y objetos quebradizos.
- 6Obra para impedir el desborde de un río, hecha con piedras encajonadas con madera.
- 7Boca.
- 8Calabaza vaciada y seca.
- 9Pobreza extrema.
- 10Cajón, generalmente de plástico reforzado, usado lata transportar botellas de vidrio (cervezas, gaseosas, etc.).
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