yes
/jɛs/
The verdict
“yes” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,741) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,741
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 177
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Sí.
Corpus desk
Index ES-yes · yes · Spanish
yes · rank #14,741 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,741
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 177
- PHOTO-FINISH étnico
Nearest frequency peer: étnico (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Wallace
Wallace
85,263 corpus weight
- work
work
85,262 corpus weight
- yes
yes
85,260 corpus weight
- étnico
étnico
85,259 corpus weight
- útero
útero
85,258 corpus weight
- acercaba
acercaba
85,257 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yes” sits against the nearest ranked Spanish headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yes |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /jɛs/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yes” sits in Spanish frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yes is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "yu", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /jɛs/. Frequency #14,741 among 177 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "Sí.".
yes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "yu", "you", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is yes, spelled Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1Sí.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And the others all joined in chorus Yes, please do!
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yes", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.