paja
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,431
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paja is aSpanishnoun. It means: Tallo hueco de las gramíneas, una vez secado y separado del fruto. Pronounced [ˈpaxa]. It ranks #3,431 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with paz and pan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpaxa] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #3,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for paja is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpaxa]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,431 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 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 paja, with forms such as "apja", "paaj", and "pajja". 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, "paz", "pan", "pal", 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 paja, spelled P-A-J-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tallo hueco de las gramíneas, una vez secado y separado del fruto.
- 2Por extensión, la parte descartable de cualquier producto, por contraposición con aquella verdaderamente útil.
- 3Tubo delgado y corto, utilizado para sorber líquidos.
- 4Acción y efecto de masturbarse.
- 5Sensación de aburrimiento o pereza.
- 6Mentira o engaño deliberadamente propalado.
- 7Acción que demuestra estupidez o falta de juicio.
- 8Discurso jactancioso o engreído.
- 9Llave que, colocada al extremo de una cañería, gradúa o limita el flujo de aquello que esta contiene.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apja,paaj,pajja,pjaa,ppaja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paja
Misspelling Variants of "paja"
Frequency rank: #3,431 in Spanish
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