vi
[ˈbi]
The verdict
“vi” is in the everyday core of Spanish, ranked #543 in Spanish word frequency and used as a verb.
- #543
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Primera persona del singular (yo) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.
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) |
Where “vi” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vi is 2 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbi]. Corpus data places it at rank #543 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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Using “vi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is V-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈbi] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “voy” - see the side-by-side comparison. vi vs voy
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.