jalá
[xaˈla]
The verdict
“jalá” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hogaza de pan trenzado, enriquecido con huevo, miel y semillas —pero no manteca ni leche, para evitar hacerlo jalaví y permitir su consumo con alimentos cárnicos— que en la tradición judía ashkenaz...
Corpus desk
Index ES-jala · jalá · Spanish
jalá · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "J" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jalá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [xaˈla] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “jalá” en español
Rare enough to double-check
jalá is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [xaˈla]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hogaza de pan trenzado, enriquecido con huevo, miel y semillas —pero no manteca ni leche, para evitar hacerlo jalaví y permitir su consumo con alimentos cárnicos— que en la tradición judía ashkenaz...".
jalá doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is jalá, spelled J-A-L-Á.
Definition
- 1Hogaza de pan trenzado, enriquecido con huevo, miel y semillas —pero no manteca ni leche, para evitar hacerlo jalaví y permitir su consumo con alimentos cárnicos— que en la tradición judía ashkenazí se consume en la cena de Shabat.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.