I
[ˈi]
The verdict
“I” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #360) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #360
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,428
- “I” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Novena letra del alfabeto español y tercera vocal.
Corpus desk
Index ES-i · I · Spanish
I · rank #360 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #360
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,428
- PHOTO-FINISH amigo
Nearest frequency peer: amigo (-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 “I”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sabe
sabe
99,644 corpus weight
- todavía
todavía
99,643 corpus weight
- amigo
amigo
99,642 corpus weight
- I
I
99,641 corpus weight
- Madrid
Madrid
99,640 corpus weight
- mayoría
mayoría
99,639 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “I” 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 | I |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | [ˈi] |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #360 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “I”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for I is neighbouring look-alikes ("ir", "ii", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced [ˈi]. Frequency #360 among 3,428 “I” headwords. Gloss: "Novena letra del alfabeto español y tercera vocal.".
I doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ir", "ii", "is", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is I, spelled I.
Definition
- 1Novena letra del alfabeto español y tercera vocal.
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.