oveja
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,885
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
oveja is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Ovis aries) Mamífero rumiante ungulado, generalmente criado por su carne, leche y lana. Pronounced [oˈβ̞exa]. Often confused with over and ovejas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oveja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈβ̞exa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for oveja is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈβ̞exa]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,885 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 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 oveja, with forms such as "obeja", "oevja", and "oveaj". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "over", "ovejas", "OEA", 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 oveja, spelled O-V-E-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Ovis aries) Mamífero rumiante ungulado, generalmente criado por su carne, leche y lana.
- 2En particular, la hembra adulta de Ovis aries.
- 3(Lama glama) Camélido doméstico sudamericano.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: obeja,oevja,oveaj,ovejja,ovjea,ovveja,voeja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for oveja
Misspelling Variants of "oveja"
Frequency rank: #12,885 in Spanish
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