noy
/nɔɪ/obsolete
noy is spelled N-O-Y: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, noy means “To annoy; to harm or injure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in noy?
| Letters | 3: N-O-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 66,686th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is noy?
Noy appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce noy?
- UK /nɔɪ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-noy.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with noy?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as noy from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɪ/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: yon, ony.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of noy
- noys present, singular, he/she/it
- noying participle, present
- noyed participle, past
- noie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does noy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
archaicTo annoy; to harm or injure.
noun
- 1
obsoleteAnnoyance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does noy come from?
From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).