ahoy
[aˈoj]
The verdict
“ahoy” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #92,633 among 120,137 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,633
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 120,137
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Variante subestándar de hoy.
| 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) |
Where “ahoy” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ahoy is uncommon Spanish at frequency #92,633 among 120,137 “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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Using “ahoy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-H-O-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [aˈoj] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
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.