job
/d͡ʒɒb/
The verdict
“job” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #18,003) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,003
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trabajo, empleo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-job · job · Spanish
job · rank #18,003 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,003
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH its
Nearest frequency peer: its (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “job”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- inventa
inventa
82,001 corpus weight
- its
its
81,999 corpus weight
- job
job
81,998 corpus weight
- juntamos
juntamos
81,997 corpus weight
- latente
latente
81,996 corpus weight
- Leslie
Leslie
81,995 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “job” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | job |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒɒb/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #18,003 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “job”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for job is neighbouring look-alikes ("ju", "Joe", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /d͡ʒɒb/. Frequency #18,003 among 645 “J” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for job, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ju", "Joe", "joy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is job, spelled J-O-B.
Definition
- 1Trabajo, empleo.
- 2Tarea.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).