queja
Spanish, noun
queja is spelled Q-U-E-J-A (5 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,909th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Queja is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “complaint, grievance, gripe, grumble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, quejá is a different word: “only used in te ... quejá, syntactic variant of quejate…”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Manifestación de pena, dolor o sentimiento”.
What does queja mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecomplaint, grievance, gripe, grumble
- 2
femininecomplaining
verb
- 1
only used in te ... queja, syntactic variant of quéjate, second-person singular imperative of quejarse
verb
- 1
only used in te ... quejá, syntactic variant of quejate, second-person singular voseo imperative of quejarse
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Manifestación de pena, dolor o sentimiento. 2. Acto o acción de quejarse de algo. 3. Querella, denuncia ante un tribunal o juez. 4. Desazón o resentimiento.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of queja
- quejas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to queja
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is queja in Spanish?
queja appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).