hay
[ˈaj]
The verdict
“hay” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #42) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #42
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,569
- “H” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de haber.
Corpus desk
Index ES-hay · hay · Spanish
hay · rank #42 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #42
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,569
- PHOTO-FINISH sin
Nearest frequency peer: sin (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hay”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- yo
yo
99,963 corpus weight
- ser
ser
99,962 corpus weight
- son
son
99,961 corpus weight
- sin
sin
99,960 corpus weight
- hay
hay
99,959 corpus weight
- fue
fue
99,957 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hay” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | hay |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈaj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #42 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “hay” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for hay is neighbouring look-alikes ("he", "Ho", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈaj]. Frequency #42 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de haber.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hay, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "he", "Ho", "hi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is hay, spelled H-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de haber.
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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- "hay" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "he". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #42 among Spanish headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.