journal

/[ʒuʁ.nal]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,134

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

journal is aSpanishnoun. It means: Periódico, diario. Pronounced [ʒuʁ.nal]. It ranks #8,134 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with journey and jornal.

Key facts for journal
PropertyValue
Headwordjournal
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ʒuʁ.nal]
Letters7
Frequency rank#8,134
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of journal in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for journal is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ʒuʁ.nal]. Corpus data places it at rank #8,134 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Periódico, diario.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for journal, with forms such as "jjournal", "jorunal", and "jounral". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "journey", "jornal", 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 journal, spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Periódico, diario.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjournal,jorunal,jounral,jouranl,journall,journla,journnal,jourrnal,juornal,ojurnal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for journal

Misspelling Variants of "journal"

jjournal8jorunal7jounral7jouranl7journall8journla7journnal8jourrnal8
Misspelling Variants of "journal"

Frequency rank: #8,134 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "journal"?
"journal" is spelled J-O-U-R-N-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ʒuʁ.nal].
What does "journal" mean?
As a noun, "journal" means: Periódico, diario.
What words are commonly confused with "journal"?
"journal" is commonly confused with "journey", "jornal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "journal"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "journal" is [ʒuʁ.nal]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "journal" come from?
"journal" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.