lija
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,317
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
lija is aSpanishnoun. It means: Papel que se utiliza para lijar madera. Pronounced [ˈlixa]. Often confused with lin and Loa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lija |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlixa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #39,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for lija is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlixa]. Corpus data places it at rank #39,317 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for lija, with forms such as "ilja", "liaj", and "lijja". 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, "lin", "Loa", "lio", 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 lija, spelled L-I-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Papel que se utiliza para lijar madera.
- 2Pez marino del orden de los selacios, de cuerpo casi cilíndrico que llega a un metro de longitud, cabeza pequeña y boca con muchos dientes de tres puntas; tiene cinco aberturas branquiales a cada lado del cuello; piel grísea con muchas pintas de color pardo rojizo en el lomo, blanquecina en la región abdominal, sin escamas, pero cubierta de una especie de granillos córneos muy duros, que la hacen sumamente áspera; las aletas dorsales tan separadas, que la última cae encima o detrás de la anal, y cola gruesa y escotada. Es animal carnicero, muy voraz, del cual se utiliza, además de la carne, la piel y el aceite que se saca de su hígado.
- 3Piel seca de este pez o de otro selacio, que por la dureza de sus granillos se emplea para limpiar y pulir metales y maderas.
- 4Hambre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ilja,liaj,lijja,ljia,llija
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for lija
Misspelling Variants of "lija"
Frequency rank: #39,317 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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