boy
[bɔɪ]
The verdict
“boy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #4,966) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #4,966
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Junge, junger Mann
Corpus desk
Index DE-boy · boy · German
boy · rank #4,966 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,966
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH bisherige
Nearest frequency peer: bisherige (-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 “boy”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Beschäftigu…
Beschäftigung
95,038 corpus weight
- bewerben
bewerben
95,037 corpus weight
- bisherige
bisherige
95,036 corpus weight
- boy
boy
95,035 corpus weight
- Butter
Butter
95,034 corpus weight
- Bündnis
Bündnis
95,033 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “boy” sits against the nearest ranked German 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 | boy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bɔɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #4,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “boy” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boy is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [bɔɪ]. Frequency #4,966 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Junge, junger Mann".
boy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "bu", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is boy, spelled B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Junge, junger Mann
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how boy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That's a pretty boy, isn't he?
Antonyms
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- "boy" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "by". View pair
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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.