va
[ˈba]
The verdict
“va” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #98) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #98
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-va · va · Spanish
va · rank #98 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #98
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH mundo
Nearest frequency peer: mundo (-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 “va”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- estado
estado
99,906 corpus weight
- estoy
estoy
99,905 corpus weight
- mundo
mundo
99,904 corpus weight
- va
va
99,903 corpus weight
- año
año
99,901 corpus weight
- les
les
99,900 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “va” 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 | va |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈba] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #98 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “va”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for va is neighbouring look-alikes ("ve", "vi", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈba]. Frequency #98 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for va, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ve", "vi", "vez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 va, spelled V-A.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de ir.
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.