jugaba
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,319
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
16
similar word pairs
jugaba is aSpanishverb. It means: Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de jugar o de jugarse. Pronounced [xuˈɣ̞aβ̞a]. It ranks #7,319 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with jugar and jugado.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | jugaba |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [xuˈɣ̞aβ̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 16 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for jugaba is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [xuˈɣ̞aβ̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,319 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for jugaba, with forms such as "jguaba", "jjugaba", and "juagba". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "jugar", "jugado", "jugada", 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 jugaba, spelled J-U-G-A-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de jugar o de jugarse.
- 2Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de jugar o de jugarse.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jguaba,jjugaba,juagba,jugaab,jugabba,jugava,jugbaa,juggaba,ujgaba
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for jugaba
Misspelling Variants of "jugaba"
Frequency rank: #7,319 in Spanish
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