sai
[ˈsai̯]
The verdict
“sai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,708) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,708
- frequency rank, German
- 8,027
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sapere
Corpus desk
Index DE-sai · sai · German
sai · rank #47,708 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,708
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,027
- PHOTO-FINISH Sachbearbeite…
Nearest frequency peer: Sachbearbeiterin (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „sai“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- rudimentär
rudimentär
52,297 corpus weight
- Röhrchen
Röhrchen
52,296 corpus weight
- Sachbearbei…
Sachbearbeiterin
52,294 corpus weight
- sai
sai
52,293 corpus weight
- saisonale
saisonale
52,292 corpus weight
- Sake
Sake
52,291 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „sai“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | sai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈsai̯] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,708 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „sai“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for sai is neighbouring look-alikes ("so", "Sc", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈsai̯]. Frequency #47,708 among 8,027 “S” headwords. Gloss: "2. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sapere".
sai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "Sc", "SV", 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 to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sai, spelled S-A-I.
Definition
- 12. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs sapere
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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