jua
[ˈxwa]
The verdict
“jua” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,668) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,668
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamación de gozo o risa.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jua · jua · Spanish
jua · rank #43,668 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,668
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH Jordana
Nearest frequency peer: Jordana (-2 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 “jua”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- inútilmente
inútilmente
56,339 corpus weight
- Jericó
Jericó
56,337 corpus weight
- Jordana
Jordana
56,335 corpus weight
- jua
jua
56,333 corpus weight
- Jáuregui
Jáuregui
56,330 corpus weight
- laborioso
laborioso
56,327 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “jua” 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 | jua |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [ˈxwa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “jua”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jua is neighbouring look-alikes ("jul", "jus", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [ˈxwa]. Frequency #43,668 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Exclamación de gozo o risa.".
No misspelling variants are generated for jua in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jul", "jus", "jue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is jua, spelled J-U-A.
Definition
- 1Exclamación de gozo o risa.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).