bye
[ˈbaj]
The verdict
“bye” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,616) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,616
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En un torneo de ajedrez, posibilidad de solicitar la ausencia durante una ronda recibiendo el puntaje equivalente a un empate.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bye · bye · Spanish
bye · rank #17,616 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,616
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bloquean
Nearest frequency peer: bloquean (-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 “bye”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- blanda
blanda
82,388 corpus weight
- bloqueada
bloqueada
82,387 corpus weight
- bloquean
bloquean
82,386 corpus weight
- bye
bye
82,385 corpus weight
- bárbaros
bárbaros
82,384 corpus weight
- búlgaro
búlgaro
82,383 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “bye” 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 | bye |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbaj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “bye”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bye is neighbouring look-alikes ("b", "by", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈbaj]. Frequency #17,616 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Gloss: "En un torneo de ajedrez, posibilidad de solicitar la ausencia durante una ronda recibiendo el puntaje equivalente a un empate.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bye in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "b", "by", "be", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is bye, spelled B-Y-E.
Definition
- 1En un torneo de ajedrez, posibilidad de solicitar la ausencia durante una ronda recibiendo el puntaje equivalente a un empate.
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).