vi
[ˈbi]
The verdict
“vi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #543) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #543
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vi · vi · Spanish
vi · rank #543 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #543
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH propia
Nearest frequency peer: propia (-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 “vi”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- político
político
99,461 corpus weight
- principal
principal
99,460 corpus weight
- propia
propia
99,459 corpus weight
- vi
vi
99,458 corpus weight
- vista
vista
99,457 corpus weight
- volver
volver
99,456 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “vi” 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 | vi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbi] |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “vi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vi is neighbouring look-alikes ("voy", "vos", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈbi]. Frequency #543 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voy", "vos", "voz", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is vi, spelled V-I.
Definition
- 1Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.
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.