vox
"vox" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“vox” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #21,699) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #21,699
- frequency rank, English
- 969
- “V” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.
Corpus desk
Index EN-vox · vox · English
vox · rank #21,699 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,699
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 969
- PHOTO-FINISH virtuous
Nearest frequency peer: virtuous (-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 “vox”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan
78,307 corpus weight
- valor
valor
78,306 corpus weight
- vape
vape
78,305 corpus weight
- vernacular
vernacular
78,304 corpus weight
- virtuous
virtuous
78,303 corpus weight
- vox
vox
78,302 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “vox” 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 | vox |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #21,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “vox”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for vox is neighbouring look-alikes ("VR", "VP", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #21,699 among 969 “V” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for vox in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "VR", "VP", "VW", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice. The correct English form is vox, spelled V-O-X.
Definition
- 1The voice, especially one's singing voice; vocals.
- 2Ellipsis of vox pop.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how vox appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The junior can offer to do the voxes, gaining experience and sparing the senior journalist the trouble. Always remember to think how the clips will edit together. If you're the lucky junior sent to do voxes, there are some technical matters […]
Etymology
From Latin vōx (“voice”). Doublet of voice.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).