lejía
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,783
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lejía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Solución cáustica y muy alcalina obtenida de la infusión o decocción de cenizas de madera, usada como limpiador. Pronounced [leˈxia]. Often confused with Lía and lema.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lejía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [leˈxia] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,783 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lejía is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [leˈxia]. Corpus data places it at rank #38,783 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for lejía, with forms such as "eljía", "lejaí", and "lejjía". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Lía", "lema", "lesa", 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 lejía, spelled L-E-J-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Solución cáustica y muy alcalina obtenida de la infusión o decocción de cenizas de madera, usada como limpiador.
- 2Por extensión, solución de hipoclorito de sodio, empleada como limpiador o desinfectante.
- 3Corrección verbal de marcada vehemencia.
- 4Acción y efecto de lavar la ropa.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eljía,lejaí,lejjía,leíja,ljeía,llejía
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lejía
Misspelling Variants of "lejía"
Frequency rank: #38,783 in Spanish
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