jama
[ˈxama]
The verdict
“jama” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,472 among 645 “J” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,472
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de jamar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jama · jama · Spanish
jama · rank #65,472 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,472
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Jalil
Nearest frequency peer: Jalil (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “jama”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- iracundo
iracundo
34,534 corpus weight
- Jalil
Jalil
34,530 corpus weight
- jama
jama
34,529 corpus weight
- Jeannette
Jeannette
34,528 corpus weight
- judería
judería
34,524 corpus weight
- jugaré
jugaré
34,523 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “jama” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jama |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈxama] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,472 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “jama” en español
Rare enough to double-check
jama is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,472 among 645 “J” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈxama]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
jama has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is jama, spelled J-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de jamar.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de jamar.
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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