boy
[ˈboj]
The verdict
“boy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,179) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #5,179
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chico del cuerpo de baile en las revistas y espectáculos musicales.
Corpus desk
Index ES-boy · boy · Spanish
boy · rank #5,179 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,179
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bebidas
Nearest frequency peer: bebidas (-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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “boy”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- atentado
atentado
94,825 corpus weight
- automáticam…
automáticamente
94,824 corpus weight
- bebidas
bebidas
94,823 corpus weight
- boy
boy
94,822 corpus weight
- campus
campus
94,820 corpus weight
- caridad
caridad
94,819 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “boy” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | boy |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈboj] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #5,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “boy”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for boy is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈboj]. Frequency #5,179 among 2,459 “B” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for boy in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "bus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is boy, spelled B-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Chico del cuerpo de baile en las revistas y espectáculos musicales.
- 2Chico que actúa bailando en espectáculos eróticos cuyo número principal consiste en ir desnudándose al ritmo de la música.
- 3Sirviente nativo, doméstico o personal, de las colonias africanas y asiáticas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how boy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
se despedía siempre del grupo como si fuera Celia Gámez en la apoteosis final, del brazo del primer boy (Pedro) y nos quedábamos con un palmo de narices. .
Tras un montón de copas se animaron y decidieron acudir en grupo a un espectáculo de boys muy famoso en su localidad por la calidad de los que allí actuaban, sobre todo de un tal MAKUMBO, que estaba tremendamente bien dotado para el desarrollo de su profesión.
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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