vai
noun
vai is spelled V-A-I: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vai means “Initialism of verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vai is vais.
How many letters and syllables are in vai?
| Letters | 3: V-A-I |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 51,129th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is vai?
Vai appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 51,129th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with vai
Also written: bhai.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with vai?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as vai.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: via, avi.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of vai
- vais plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vai mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Initialism of verb animate intransitive: an intransitive verb that agrees with an animate subject.
- 2
Alternative spelling of bhai.
noun
- 1
An ethnic group of Liberia and Sierra Leone.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of vai (“verb inanimate intransitive”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does vai come from?
Transliteration of Bengali ভাই (bhai). Doublet of bhai; see there for more doublets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).