jam
/ˈjam/
The verdict
“jam” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,741) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,741
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ya.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jam · jam · Spanish
jam · rank #17,741 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,741
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH jade
Nearest frequency peer: jade (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “jam”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- isa
isa
82,263 corpus weight
- Jackie
Jackie
82,262 corpus weight
- jade
jade
82,261 corpus weight
- jam
jam
82,260 corpus weight
- Kyle
Kyle
82,258 corpus weight
- lancha
lancha
82,257 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “jam” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | jam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈjam/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “jam” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jam is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "je", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /ˈjam/. Frequency #17,741 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Ya.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jam in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "je", "ji", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is jam, spelled J-A-M.
Definition
- 1Ya.
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.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "jam" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "jo". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #17,741 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.