say
/seɪ/
The verdict
“say” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,225) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,225
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,169
- “S” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Decir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-say · say · Spanish
say · rank #15,225 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,225
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,169
- PHOTO-FINISH saudí
Nearest frequency peer: saudí (-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 “say”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- salada
salada
84,779 corpus weight
- sangrienta
sangrienta
84,778 corpus weight
- saudí
saudí
84,777 corpus weight
- say
say
84,776 corpus weight
- seguís
seguís
84,775 corpus weight
- semáforo
semáforo
84,774 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “say” 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 | say |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /seɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “say”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for say is neighbouring look-alikes ("se", "su", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /seɪ/. Frequency #15,225 among 4,169 “S” headwords. Gloss: "Decir.".
say has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "se", "su", "sí", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is say, spelled S-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Decir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how say appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.
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).