jara
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,628
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
jara is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Cistus ladanifer) Mata o arbusto con ramas leñosas y erguidas, de color pardo rojizo, de 1 a 2 metros de altura, hojas pecioladas, elípticas, agudas de color verde oscuro por la parte superior y b... Pronounced [ˈxaɾa]. Often confused with jua and juro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jara |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxaɾa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #12,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jara is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxaɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,628 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for jara, with forms such as "ajra", "jaar", and "jjara". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jua", "juro", "joda", 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 jara, spelled J-A-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cistus ladanifer) Mata o arbusto con ramas leñosas y erguidas, de color pardo rojizo, de 1 a 2 metros de altura, hojas pecioladas, elípticas, agudas de color verde oscuro por la parte superior y blanquecina por el envés, sus flores son grandes, de color blanco (jara estepa y estepa negra) de color lila brillante la estepa blanca, todas con corola de gran tamaño y blanca, en ramos pedunculados y terminales, con brácteas coriáceas, sépalos ovalados y vellosos con brácteas y fruto capsular, aovado, sedoso con cinco ventallas.
- 2Palo de punta aguzada y endurecido al fuego, que se emplea como arma arrojadiza.
- 3Cuota obligatoria pagada por individuos o instituciones a un gobierno central o local.
- 4Onza de oro.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ajra,jaar,jjara,jraa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jara
Misspelling Variants of "jara"
Frequency rank: #12,628 in Spanish
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