así
[aˈsi]
The verdict
“así” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #55) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #55
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - De este modo o forma.
Corpus desk
Index ES-asi · así · Spanish
así · rank #55 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #55
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH años
Nearest frequency peer: años (+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 “así”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- tiene
tiene
99,950 corpus weight
- porque
porque
99,948 corpus weight
- así
así
99,946 corpus weight
- años
años
99,945 corpus weight
- dos
dos
99,944 corpus weight
- bien
bien
99,943 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “así” 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 | así |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [aˈsi] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “así”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for así is neighbouring look-alikes ("ay", "at", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [aˈsi]. Frequency #55 among 7,704 “A” headwords. 5 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
así doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ay", "at", "av", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is así, spelled A-S-Í.
Definition
- 1De este modo o forma.
- 2En frases interrogativas y exclamativas, indica asombro, sorpresa o admiración.
- 3En el lenguaje oral, introduce una respuesta con forma de conclusión obvia de lo ya dicho.
- 4Indica que se añade información.
- 5En frases con como, introduce una nueva que repite el verbo o su acción.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how así appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Así es como se hace esto: de esta manera y no de otra.
¿Así piensas vestirte hoy?
Synonyms
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
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