jai
[ˈxaj]
The verdict
“jai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,631) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,631
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 645
- “J” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hembra humana, en especial la de corta edad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-jai · jai · Spanish
jai · rank #36,631 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,631
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 645
- PHOTO-FINISH issues
Nearest frequency peer: issues (-2 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 “jai”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- intercambia…
intercambiando
63,376 corpus weight
- inviten
inviten
63,375 corpus weight
- issues
issues
63,372 corpus weight
- jai
jai
63,370 corpus weight
- Jude
Jude
63,366 corpus weight
- Juli
Juli
63,365 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “jai” 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 | jai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈxaj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,631 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “jai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for jai is neighbouring look-alikes ("jo", "je", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈxaj]. Frequency #36,631 among 645 “J” headwords. Gloss: "Hembra humana, en especial la de corta edad.".
Zero misspellings are on record for jai in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "jo", "je", "ji", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 jai, spelled J-A-I.
Definition
- 1Hembra humana, en especial la de corta edad.
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).