jeque
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#25,690
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
jeque is aSpanishnoun. It means: Dirigente o régulo musulmán o árabe que gobierna y manda un territorio, provincia, o villa. Pronounced [ˈxeke]. Often confused with jue and Jesus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jeque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxeke] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jeque is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxeke]. Corpus data places it at rank #25,690 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 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for jeque, with forms such as "ejque", "jeqeu", and "jeqque". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "jue", "Jesus", "Jesse", 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 jeque, spelled J-E-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dirigente o régulo musulmán o árabe que gobierna y manda un territorio, provincia, o villa.
- 2Clérigo religioso del islam; líder de una comunidad religiosa islámica.
- 3Título oficial para miembros de las familias reales y de familias prominentes de países árabes.
- 4Título honorífico para musulmanes respetados en virtud de su edad o de sus conocimientos islámicos y/o espirituales.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ejque,jeqeu,jeqque,jeuqe,jjeque,jqeue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jeque
Misspelling Variants of "jeque"
Frequency rank: #25,690 in Spanish
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