vai
[vaj]
The verdict
“vai” is uncommon German (frequency #74,116 among 4,163 “V” headwords), classed as a conjunction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,116
- frequency rank, German
- 4,163
- “V” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - exklusives oder
Corpus desk
Index DE-vai · vai · German
vai · rank #74,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,116
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,163
- PHOTO-FINISH Urteilsspruch
Nearest frequency peer: Urteilsspruch (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „vai“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Unzulänglic…
Unzulänglichkeit
25,889 corpus weight
- ursus
ursus
25,887 corpus weight
- Urteilsspru…
Urteilsspruch
25,886 corpus weight
- vai
vai
25,885 corpus weight
- Varus
Varus
25,884 corpus weight
- vasco
vasco
25,883 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „vai“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vai |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | [vaj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „vai“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
vai is uncommon German at frequency #74,116 among 4,163 “V” headwords, classed as aconjunction, transcribed [vaj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "exklusives oder".
vai doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is vai, spelled V-A-I.
Definition
- 1exklusives oder
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how vai appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Menisinkö elokuviin vai jäisinkö kotiin?
Otatteko kahvia, teetä vai maitoa?
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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