jaque
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,888
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
11
similar word pairs
jaque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Movimiento en el que el jugador que mueve pone al rey contrario bajo ataque directo, situación que obliga al rival a mover su rey, capturar la pieza atacante o cubrirse con una pieza propia. Pronounced [ˈxake]. Often confused with jue and jugué.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jaque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxake] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jaque is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxake]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,888 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jaque, with forms such as "ajque", "jaqeu", and "jaqque". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "jue", "jugué", "Jaume", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 jaque, spelled J-A-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Movimiento en el que el jugador que mueve pone al rey contrario bajo ataque directo, situación que obliga al rival a mover su rey, capturar la pieza atacante o cubrirse con una pieza propia.
- 2La situación en la que el rey esta bajo ataque directo por parte de alguna pieza del oponente.
- 3Valentón, perdonavidas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajque,jaqeu,jaqque,jauqe,jjaque,jqaue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jaque
Misspelling Variants of "jaque"
Frequency rank: #16,888 in Spanish
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