alí
[aˈli]
The verdict
“alí” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,257) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,257
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allí.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ali · alí · Spanish
alí · rank #16,257 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,257
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH algoritmos
Nearest frequency peer: algoritmos (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “alí”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- agarran
agarran
83,747 corpus weight
- alegrías
alegrías
83,746 corpus weight
- algoritmos
algoritmos
83,745 corpus weight
- alí
alí
83,744 corpus weight
- amargura
amargura
83,743 corpus weight
- aportado
aportado
83,742 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “alí” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | alí |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [aˈli] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “alí”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for alí is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "as", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [aˈli]. Frequency #16,257 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Allí.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alí, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "as", "am", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is alí, spelled A-L-Í.
Definition
- 1Allí.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alí appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alí se xuntaron os máis cabaleiros para a cabalgada e outros suxetos.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alí", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).