ojalá
[oxaˈla]
The verdict
“ojalá” has 6 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #1,613. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,613
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se emplea para expresar el deseo de que algo ocurra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ojala · ojalá · Spanish
ojalá · rank #1,613 · 6 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,613
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH números
Nearest frequency peer: números (-1 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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “ojalá”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- líneas
líneas
98,391 corpus weight
- mínimo
mínimo
98,390 corpus weight
- números
números
98,389 corpus weight
- ojalá
ojalá
98,388 corpus weight
- pantalla
pantalla
98,387 corpus weight
- perfil
perfil
98,385 corpus weight
What this shows “ojalá” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
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 | ojalá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [oxaˈla] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “ojalá”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around ojalá (IPA [oxaˈla]), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #1,613 among 1,467 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Se emplea para expresar el deseo de que algo ocurra.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for ojalá, with forms such as "joalá", "oajlá", and "ojallá". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "ola", "oral", "olla", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ojalá, spelled O-J-A-L-Á.
Definition
- 1Se emplea para expresar el deseo de que algo ocurra.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ojalá appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
«Ojalá pase algo que te borre de pronto: una luz cegadora, un disparo de nieve, ojalá por lo menos que me lleve la muerte, para no verte tanto, para no verte siempre».
«—¡Ojalá fuera yo tan dichosa…! Que me ha llevado los ojos y he de hablar a mi hermano acerca de esto».
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- joalá
- oajlá
- ojallá
- ojaál
- ojjalá
- ojlaá
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ojalá - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ojalá", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).