VIH
[beˈjat͡ʃe]
The verdict
“VIH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,740) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,740
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Especie de lentivirus cuya infección afecta al sistema inmune humano y con el tiempo puede llegar a causar el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vih · VIH · Spanish
VIH · rank #8,740 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,740
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH vigilar
Nearest frequency peer: vigilar (-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 “VIH”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- vergonzoso
vergonzoso
91,264 corpus weight
- Viera
Viera
91,263 corpus weight
- vigilar
vigilar
91,262 corpus weight
- VIH
VIH
91,261 corpus weight
- vinculados
vinculados
91,260 corpus weight
- visiones
visiones
91,259 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “VIH” 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 | VIH |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [beˈjat͡ʃe] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “VIH”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for VIH is neighbouring look-alikes ("voy", "vos", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [beˈjat͡ʃe]. Frequency #8,740 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Especie de lentivirus cuya infección afecta al sistema inmune humano y con el tiempo puede llegar a causar el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for VIH, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is VIH, spelled V-I-H.
Definition
- 1Especie de lentivirus cuya infección afecta al sistema inmune humano y con el tiempo puede llegar a causar el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida.
This word in other languages
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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