vía
Letters
3 characters
Frequency Rank
#905
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
vía is aSpanishnoun. It means: Camino, lugar destinado al tránsito de personas o cosas. Pronounced [ˈbia]. It ranks #905 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with voy and vos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vía |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbia] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for vía is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbia]. Corpus data places it at rank #905 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for vía in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "voy", "vos", "voz", 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 vía, spelled V-Í-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Camino, lugar destinado al tránsito de personas o cosas.
- 2Barras de acero sobre las que transita el tren.
- 3Terreno especialmente trabajado y configurado por donde se ponen los rieles del ferrocarril.
- 4En calles, avenidas y carreteras, cada una de las calzadas por donde circulan los vehículos.
- 5Forma de transportar una mercancía por aire, mar o tierra.
- 6Conductos que comunican un órgano con el exterior.
- 7Acercamiento virtuoso a Dios y la perfección, que consta de tres etapas: vía purgativa, vía iluminativa y vía unitiva.
- 8Método empleado para conseguir un objetivo.
- 9Forma de administrar un remedio.
- 10Norma procesal.
- 11Ruta seguida en la ascensión.
- 12Luz de giro.
- 13Huecos en los laterales del vehículo, en donde se colocan las luces de giro.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #905 in Spanish
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