aya
"aya" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aya” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,866) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,866
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Yes; yea; aye.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aya · aya · English
aya · rank #31,866 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,866
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ayatollah
Nearest frequency peer: ayatollah (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “aya”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- ashram
ashram
68,139 corpus weight
- attentions
attentions
68,138 corpus weight
- Aust
Aust
68,137 corpus weight
- aya
aya
68,135 corpus weight
- ayatollah
ayatollah
68,134 corpus weight
- baa
baa
68,132 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “aya” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | aya |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “aya”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aya is neighbouring look-alikes ("AZ", "aye", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #31,866 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Yes; yea; aye.".
aya has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "AZ", "aye", "ayr", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is aya, spelled A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Yes; yea; aye.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”
“And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).