ninja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,385
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
18
similar word pairs
ninja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Mercenario entrenado especialmente en formas no ortodoxas de hacer la guerra, en las que se incluía el asesinato, espionaje, sabotaje, reconocimiento y guerra de guerrillas, con el afán de desestab... Pronounced [ˈnĩɲʝa]. Often confused with niño and Niza.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ninja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈnĩɲʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for ninja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈnĩɲʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,385 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for ninja, with forms such as "innja", "nijna", and "ninaj". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "niño", "Niza", "nunca", 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 ninja, spelled N-I-N-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mercenario entrenado especialmente en formas no ortodoxas de hacer la guerra, en las que se incluía el asesinato, espionaje, sabotaje, reconocimiento y guerra de guerrillas, con el afán de desestabilizar al ejército enemigo, obtener información vital de la posición de sus tropas o lograr una ventaja importante que pudiera ser decisiva en el campo de batalla.
- 2Persona que tiene gran habilidad o destreza en un determinado oficio.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: innja,nijna,ninaj,ninjja,ninnja,nnija,nninja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "ninja"
Frequency rank: #10,385 in Spanish
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