tajo
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,504
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
tajo is aSpanishnoun. It means: Abertura o herida longitudinal que se hace sobre la piel con un cuchillo, y por extensión, también la que se hace sobre otros cuerpos blandos con otros instrumentos cortantes. Pronounced [ˈt̪axo]. Often confused with to and tan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tajo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪axo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #15,504 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tajo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪axo]. Corpus data places it at rank #15,504 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 13 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 tajo, with forms such as "atjo", "tajjo", and "taoj". 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, "to", "tan", "Tal", 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 tajo, spelled T-A-J-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Abertura o herida longitudinal que se hace sobre la piel con un cuchillo, y por extensión, también la que se hace sobre otros cuerpos blandos con otros instrumentos cortantes.
- 2Corte que se da con la espada u otra arma blanca, llevando el brazo de derecha a izquierda.
- 3Sisa (corte practicado en la ropa).
- 4Filo, borde.
- 5Trozo de madera grueso y pesado sobre el cual se cortaba la cabeza a los condenados a este género de muerte.
- 6Rectángulo de madera cuya superficie es ondulada. Sirve para lavar, enjabonar y restregar la ropa en un lavadero público o en el río.
- 7Banqueta de tres patas dispuestas en forma tronco-piramidal.
- 8Andadera de madera.
- 9Escarpa alta y cortada casi a plomo.
- 10Sitio hasta donde llega en su faena la cuadrilla de operarios que trabaja avanzando sobre el terreno; como la de segadores, taladores, empedradores, mineros, etc.
- 11Tarea, trabajo, labor.
- 12Zona de trabajo.
- 13Cantera (lugar de donde se extrae piedra).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atjo,tajjo,taoj,tjao,ttajo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tajo
Misspelling Variants of "tajo"
Frequency rank: #15,504 in Spanish
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