ahoy
[aˈoj]
The verdict
“ahoy” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,633 among 7,704 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,633
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7,704
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante subestándar de hoy.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ahoy · ahoy · Spanish
ahoy · rank #92,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,633
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 7,704
- PHOTO-FINISH ahorcada
Nearest frequency peer: ahorcada (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “ahoy”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- agronómicas
agronómicas
7,372 corpus weight
- ahem
ahem
7,370 corpus weight
- ahorcada
ahorcada
7,369 corpus weight
- ahoy
ahoy
7,368 corpus weight
- airado
airado
7,367 corpus weight
- alababan
alababan
7,366 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “ahoy” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ahoy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [aˈoj] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #92,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “ahoy” en español
Rare enough to double-check
ahoy is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,633 among 7,704 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed [aˈoj]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante subestándar de hoy.".
ahoy has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is ahoy, spelled A-H-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Variante subestándar de hoy.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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