vai
[ˈba̠j]
The verdict
“vai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,008) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,008
- 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 (el, ela, vostede) del presente de indicativo de ir.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vai · vai · Spanish
vai · rank #39,008 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,008
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH usura
Nearest frequency peer: usura (-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 “vai”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- urbes
urbes
60,996 corpus weight
- urinaria
urinaria
60,995 corpus weight
- usura
usura
60,994 corpus weight
- vai
vai
60,993 corpus weight
- vastas
vastas
60,992 corpus weight
- vendetta
vendetta
60,990 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “vai” 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 | vai |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈba̠j] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “vai”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vai is neighbouring look-alikes ("ve", "vi", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈba̠j]. Frequency #39,008 among 1,793 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for vai, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ve", "vi", "vez", 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 vai, spelled V-A-I.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (el, ela, vostede) del presente de indicativo de ir.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (ti) del imperativo 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.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).