Jayapura
The verdict
“Jayapura” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Capital de la parte occidental de la isla de Nueva Guinea, antigua Guinea Holandesa, que los indonesios denominan Irián Yaya.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Jayapura |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [xaʝaˈpuɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Jayapura” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Jayapura is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xaʝaˈpuɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Capital de la parte occidental de la isla de Nueva Guinea, antigua Guinea Holandesa, que los indonesios denominan Irián Yaya.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Jayapura in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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 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 Jayapura, spelled J-A-Y-A-P-U-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Capital de la parte occidental de la isla de Nueva Guinea, antigua Guinea Holandesa, que los indonesios denominan Irián Yaya.
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Using “Jayapura”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is J-A-Y-A-P-U-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [xaʝaˈpuɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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