vale

/[ˈbale]/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#638

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

vale is aSpanishnoun. It means: Documento de pago o sustitución de algo. Pronounced [ˈbale]. It ranks #638 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with ve and van.

Key facts for vale
PropertyValue
Headwordvale
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ˈbale]
Letters4
Frequency rank#638
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of vale in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for vale is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbale]. Corpus data places it at rank #638 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for vale, with forms such as "avle", "bale", and "vael". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ve", "van", "vas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is vale, spelled V-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: avle,bale,vael,vlae,vvale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for vale

Misspelling Variants of "vale"

avle4bale4vael4vlae4vvale5
Misspelling Variants of "vale"

Frequency rank: #638 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vale"?
"vale" is spelled V-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈbale].
What does "vale" mean?
As a noun, "vale" means: Documento de pago o sustitución de algo.
What words are commonly confused with "vale"?
"vale" is commonly confused with "ve", "van", "vas". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "vale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vale" is [ˈbale]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vale" come from?
"vale" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Nearby Spanish words

Other entries that begin with the letter V in our Spanish index:

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.