kai
/kaj/
The verdict
“kai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,404) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,404
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 248
- “K” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puerto [de mar]
Corpus desk
Index ES-kai · kai · Spanish
kai · rank #15,404 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,404
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 248
- PHOTO-FINISH June
Nearest frequency peer: June (-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 “kai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- jugará
jugará
84,599 corpus weight
- June
June
84,598 corpus weight
- kai
kai
84,597 corpus weight
- ko
ko
84,596 corpus weight
- lama
lama
84,595 corpus weight
- lejanos
lejanos
84,594 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “kai” 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 | kai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaj/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Dónde se sitúa “kai” en la frecuencia del español
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for kai is neighbouring look-alikes ("km", "kg", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /kaj/. Frequency #15,404 among 248 “K” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for kai in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "km", "kg", "ki", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 kai, spelled K-A-I.
Definition
- 1Puerto [de mar]
- 2Muelle, Embarcadero, Malecón
- 3Puerto, Refugio
- 4Andén
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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- "kai" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "km". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #15,404 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.