ayo
[ˈaʝo]
The verdict
“ayo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,145) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,145
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Persona encargada del cuidado y educación de los niños en los hogares pudientes.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ayo · ayo · Spanish
ayo · rank #45,145 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,145
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ayudaste
Nearest frequency peer: ayudaste (+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 “ayo”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- avergonzar
avergonzar
54,859 corpus weight
- avistamient…
avistamientos
54,858 corpus weight
- ayo
ayo
54,856 corpus weight
- ayudaste
ayudaste
54,855 corpus weight
- bab
bab
54,854 corpus weight
- bac
bac
54,853 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “ayo” 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 | ayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈaʝo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “ayo”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ayo is neighbouring look-alikes ("az", "ayudo", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈaʝo]. Frequency #45,145 among 7,704 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Persona encargada del cuidado y educación de los niños en los hogares pudientes.".
ayo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "az", "ayudo", "ayuno", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is ayo, spelled A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Persona encargada del cuidado y educación de los niños en los hogares pudientes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ayo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ca como quiera que allí estavan los infantes don Johan e don Enrrique, fijos del rey don Ferrando de Aragón, pero eran muy moços e tocados de aquello, dolençia real que es común e general a todos los reales moços que son rigidos o governados por ayos e maestros, e aun algunos son que nunca desta dolençia sanan.
Querría yo preguntar a los ayos y maestros que crían hijos de generosos qué más fuerças han menester sus discípulos para ser golosos que para ser sobrios.
This word in other languages
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).