aya
[ˈaʝa]
The verdict
“aya” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,355) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,355
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de ayo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-aya · aya · Spanish
aya · rank #17,355 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,355
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH avergonzado
Nearest frequency peer: avergonzado (-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 “aya”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- atravesó
atravesó
82,650 corpus weight
- autopsia
autopsia
82,649 corpus weight
- avaricia
avaricia
82,648 corpus weight
- avergonzado
avergonzado
82,647 corpus weight
- aya
aya
82,646 corpus weight
- azotea
azotea
82,644 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “aya” 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 | aya |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʝa] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,355 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “aya”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aya is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "ayo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaʝa]. Frequency #17,355 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de ayo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aya, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "ayo", "ayer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is aya, spelled A-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de ayo.
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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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).