sayo
[ˈsaʝo]
The verdict
“sayo” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #81,440 among 34,953 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,440
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 34,953
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Túnica holgada, poco ceñida o sin ceñir sin botones.
Corpus desk
Index ES-sayo · sayo · Spanish
sayo · rank #81,440 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,440
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 34,953
- PHOTO-FINISH sauditas
Nearest frequency peer: sauditas (-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 “sayo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- saliesen
saliesen
18,566 corpus weight
- sanjuanino
sanjuanino
18,564 corpus weight
- sauditas
sauditas
18,562 corpus weight
- sayo
sayo
18,561 corpus weight
- scope
scope
18,559 corpus weight
- secuestrado…
secuestradora
18,557 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sayo” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sayo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈsaʝo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,440 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sayo” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sayo is uncommon Spanish at frequency #81,440 among 34,953 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈsaʝo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
sayo doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 sayo, spelled S-A-Y-O.
Definition
- 1Túnica holgada, poco ceñida o sin ceñir sin botones.
- 2Casaca vasta larga y con botones que solían llevar los aldeanos.
- 3Prenda o conjunto de prendas con que se cubre el cuerpo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sayo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y, viéndose así, y que el sayo verde se le rasgaba.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sayo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.