Analysis of the letter string "ai" in US English Using truespel
There were 121 words with the "ai" letter string in the top 5,000 words of US English.
The sound most represented by "ai" is "long a" ~ae (as in Mae), A close second was "short e" because of the most popular word "said". Notably there were no words with "long I" ~ie (as in pie) which is popular in other languages.
| 5k trad ai | by Tom Zurinskas |
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| The letter string "ai" is analyzed in truespel phonetics | ||||||||
| for the top 5,000 words of English (US accent) | ||||||||
| sounds | instances | % | words | % | top word | truespel | instances | |
| ~ae | 76,248 | 40% | 89 | 74% | main | ~maen | 3,486 | |
| ~e | 73,895 | 39% | 3 | 2% | said | ~sed | 49,772 | |
| ~air | 21,930 | 12% | 18 | 15% | air | ~air | 4,560 | |
| ~i | 17,365 | 9% | 11 | 9% | certain | ~sertin | 5,194 | |
| 189,438 | 100% | 121 | 100% | |||||
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