bai
[baɪ]
The verdict
“bai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,101) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,101
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sí. (afirmación)
Corpus desk
Index ES-bai · bai · Spanish
bai · rank #27,101 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,101
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH atendida
Nearest frequency peer: atendida (-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 “bai”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- arrow
arrow
72,903 corpus weight
- asaltado
asaltado
72,902 corpus weight
- atendida
atendida
72,901 corpus weight
- bai
bai
72,900 corpus weight
- bajes
bajes
72,899 corpus weight
- balada
balada
72,898 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bai” 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 | bai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [baɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bai is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [baɪ]. Frequency #27,101 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Sí. (afirmación)".
No misspelling variants are generated for bai in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "bo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is bai, spelled B-A-I.
Definition
- 1Sí. (afirmación)
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 "bai", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).