Rajoy
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The verdict
“Rajoy” is uncommon German (frequency #54,011 among 42,116 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,011
- frequency rank, German
- 42,116
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - spanischsprachiger Nachname, Familienname
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rajoy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Rajoy” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Rajoy is uncommon German at frequency #54,011 among 42,116 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "spanischsprachiger Nachname, Familienname".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Rajoy, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Rajoy, spelled R-A-J-O-Y.
Definition
- 1spanischsprachiger Nachname, Familienname
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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Using “Rajoy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is R-A-J-O-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.