Roi
/ˈɹɔɪ/
"roi" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Roi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #17,465) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,465
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roi islet, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.
Corpus desk
Index EN-roi · Roi · English
Roi · rank #17,465 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,465
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH Rockies
Nearest frequency peer: Rockies (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 neighbours of confusable “Roi”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- robber
robber
82,539 corpus weight
- robes
robes
82,538 corpus weight
- Rockies
Rockies
82,537 corpus weight
- Roi
Roi
82,536 corpus weight
- roulette
roulette
82,534 corpus weight
- rounding
rounding
82,533 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Roi” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | Roi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹɔɪ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #17,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Roi”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Roi is neighbouring look-alikes ("RS", "RT", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /ˈɹɔɪ/. Frequency #17,465 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Gloss: "Roi islet, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Roi in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "RS", "RT", "RP", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Marshallese Ruot. The correct English form is Roi, spelled R-O-I.
Definition
- 1Roi islet, Kwajalein atoll, Marshall Islands.
Etymology
From Marshallese Ruot.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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