mai
[ˈmaj]
The verdict
“mai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,397) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,397
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jamás o nunca.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mai · mai · Spanish
mai · rank #14,397 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,397
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH lámparas
Nearest frequency peer: lámparas (-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 “mai”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- Lorena
Lorena
85,607 corpus weight
- lámparas
lámparas
85,605 corpus weight
- mai
mai
85,604 corpus weight
- Mandatos
Mandatos
85,603 corpus weight
- Manolo
Manolo
85,602 corpus weight
- march
march
85,601 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mai” 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 | mai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈmaj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mai is neighbouring look-alikes ("mi", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced [ˈmaj]. Frequency #14,397 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Jamás o nunca.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mai, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mi", "mm", "my", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is mai, spelled M-A-I.
Definition
- 1Jamás o nunca.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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).