zanja
[ˈsãŋxa]
The verdict
“zanja” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #22,548. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,548
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 220
- “Z” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Corte y extracción de las tierras que se realiza sobre el terreno. En construcción, es una excavación alargada que se hace cuando el terreno debe soportar cargas superiores a las previstas por los ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-zanja · zanja · Spanish
zanja · rank #22,548 · 7 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,548
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 220
- PHOTO-FINISH winter
Nearest frequency peer: winter (-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 “zanja”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- viniste
viniste
77,457 corpus weight
- viñeta
viñeta
77,455 corpus weight
- winter
winter
77,454 corpus weight
- zanja
zanja
77,453 corpus weight
- álgebra
álgebra
77,452 corpus weight
- étnicas
étnicas
77,450 corpus weight
What this shows “zanja” 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 | zanja |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsãŋxa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,548 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “zanja”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around zanja (IPA [ˈsãŋxa]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,548 among 220 “Z” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for zanja, with forms such as "aznja", "zajna", and "zanaj". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "zona", "Zara", "zarpa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is zanja, spelled Z-A-N-J-A.
Definition
- 1Corte y extracción de las tierras que se realiza sobre el terreno. En construcción, es una excavación alargada que se hace cuando el terreno debe soportar cargas superiores a las previstas por los cimientos (un edificio colindante, una calle, etc.).
- 2Hendidura provocada por el agua que corre.
- 3Depresión alargada del fondo del océano.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aznja
- zajna
- zanaj
- zanjja
- zannja
- znaja
- zzanja
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of zanja - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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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 (7 here; floor ≥5).