vio
[ˈbjo]
The verdict
“vio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,334) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #1,334
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,793
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.
Corpus desk
Index ES-vio · vio · Spanish
vio · rank #1,334 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,334
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,793
- PHOTO-FINISH venir
Nearest frequency peer: venir (-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 “vio”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- sos
sos
98,670 corpus weight
- tercera
tercera
98,669 corpus weight
- venir
venir
98,668 corpus weight
- vio
vio
98,667 corpus weight
- amiga
amiga
98,666 corpus weight
- batalla
batalla
98,665 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “vio” 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 | vio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈbjo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #1,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “vio”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vio is neighbouring look-alikes ("voy", "vos", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [ˈbjo]. Frequency #1,334 among 1,793 “V” headwords. Gloss: "Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del pretérito perfecto simple de indicativo de ver o de verse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for vio, 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is vio, spelled V-I-O.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) 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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