jaiba

/[ˈxajβ̞a]/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#98,582

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

jaiba is aSpanishnoun. It means: Crustáceo decápodo provisto de dos fuertes pinzas, con un aspecto semejante al del cangrejo. Pertenece al grupo de los braquiuros. Es un artrópodo carroñero, muy apreciado como marisco. Existen var... Pronounced [ˈxajβ̞a].

Key facts for jaiba
PropertyValue
Headwordjaiba
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈxajβ̞a]
Letters5
Frequency rank#98,582
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of jaiba in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for jaiba is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxajβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #98,582 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Crustáceo decápodo provisto de dos fuertes pinzas, con un aspecto semejante al del cangrejo. Pertenece al grupo de los braquiuros. Es un artrópodo carroñero, muy apreciado como marisco. Existen var...".

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

Definition

  1. 1
    Crustáceo decápodo provisto de dos fuertes pinzas, con un aspecto semejante al del cangrejo. Pertenece al grupo de los braquiuros. Es un artrópodo carroñero, muy apreciado como marisco. Existen varias especies.

Frequency rank: #98,582 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jaiba"?
"jaiba" is spelled J-A-I-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈxajβ̞a].
What does "jaiba" mean?
As a noun, "jaiba" means: Crustáceo decápodo provisto de dos fuertes pinzas, con un aspecto semejante al del cangrejo. Pertenece al grupo de los braquiuros. Es un artrópodo carroñero, muy apreciado como marisco. Existen var...
How do you pronounce "jaiba"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "jaiba" is [ˈxajβ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "jaiba" 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.