joya
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,869
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
joya is aSpanishnoun. It means: Objeto de ornato hecho de uno o más metales preciosos con piedras preciosas o gemas. Pronounced [ˈxoʝa]. It ranks #7,869 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with jua and jura.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | joya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxoʝa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for joya is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxoʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,869 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for joya, with forms such as "jjoya", "joay", and "joyya". 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", "jura", "joyas", 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 joya, spelled J-O-Y-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objeto de ornato hecho de uno o más metales preciosos con piedras preciosas o gemas.
- 2Obsequio otorgado como premio.
- 3Joya grande de oro o piedras preciosas, a manera de broche, que traían las mujeres al pecho.
- 4Persona o cosa con mucho valor.
- 5Cordón en forma de anillo, que abraza la columna y se pone en dos partes: sobre la basa y debajo del friso del capitel.
- 6Anillo de adorno en los cañones de artillería, cerca de la boca.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjoya,joay,joyya,jyoa,ojya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for joya
Misspelling Variants of "joya"
Frequency rank: #7,869 in Spanish
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